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biopattern

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Etymology

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From bio- +‎ pattern.

Noun

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biopattern (plural biopatterns)

  1. A pattern of biomarkers
    • 2015 July 7, Claudia C. dos Santos, “Shedding metabo‘light’ on the search for sepsis biomarkers”, in Critical Care[1], volume 19, →DOI:
      In contrast to targeted approaches that profile a small number of known metabolites, untargeted approaches (without restriction to particular compounds) have the advantage of allowing for identification of metabolic fingerprints (that is, multiple biomarkers that form a biopattern) associated with particular endophenotypes [ 5, 6 ].