Category:OMP:0005046 ! gene silencing phenotype

name: gene silencing phenotype
def: "A genetic material phenotype dealing with the transcriptional or post-transcriptional processes carried out at the cellular level that results in long-term gene inactivation." [GO:0016458, OMP:WAM]
subset: qc_do_not_manually_annotate
xref: GO:0016458 "gene silencing"
is_a: OMP:0000290 ! genetic material phenotype
is_a: OMP:0007194 ! biological process phenotype
relationship: inheres_in: GO:0016458 ! gene silencing
intersection_of: OMP:0000000 ! microbial phenotype
intersection_of: inheres_in GO:0016458 ! gene silencing
comment: This is a high-level term whose primary purpose is to organize terms beneath it in the ontology, and we expect that it will not be used for direct annotations. Please consider using a more specific term to annotate each phenotype.