position effect

English Thesaurus

1. (genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome (noun.phenomenon)

hypernym	:	consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot,
definition	:	a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon (noun.phenomenon)

domain category	:	genetic science, genetics,
definition	:	the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms (noun.cognition)