The regular and simultaneous occurrence in a single interbreeding population of two or more discontinuous genotypes. The concept includes differences in genotypes ranging in size from a single nucleotide site (POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE) to large nucleotide sequences visible at a chromosomal level.
    

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Evolution and the genetics of populations : a treatise in four volumes. Vol. 4, Variability within and among natural populations / Sewall Wright.

Metabolic polymorphisms and susceptibility to cancer / edited by Paolo Vineis [and others].

Infection, polymorphism, and evolution / edited by W.D. Hamilton and J.C. Howard.

The distribution of the human blood groups, and other polymorphisms. Supplement 1 / D. Tills, Ada C. Kopeć, and Rosemary E. Tills.

DNA fingerprinting / M. Krawczak and J. Schmidtke.

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Evolution and the genetics of populations : a treatise in four volumes. Vol. 4, Variability within and among natural populations / Sewall Wright.

Metabolic polymorphisms and susceptibility to cancer / edited by Paolo Vineis [and others].

Infection, polymorphism, and evolution / edited by W.D. Hamilton and J.C. Howard.

The distribution of the human blood groups, and other polymorphisms. Supplement 1 / D. Tills, Ada C. Kopeć, and Rosemary E. Tills.

DNA fingerprinting / M. Krawczak and J. Schmidtke.