heterozygosity|heterozygosities in English

noun

(Biology) state of being heterozygous, state of containing a dissimilar pair of genes for any hereditary characteristic

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1. Key words: haploid, Solanum acaule, fixed heterozygosity, segmental allotetraploid.

2. In this study, we consider Admixed populations through their expected heterozygosity, a measure of genetic diversity

3. 16 The proportion of polymorphic loci and the mean average heterozygosity of the population were 24%and 0.0 respectively.

4. 29 Accumulating data indicate that heterozygosity at codon 129 plays an important part in the phenotypic expression of familial prion diseases.

5. Tetraploid populations of B. lanceolatus and B. hordeaceus were largely homozygous at homologous loci and frequently exhibited intergenomic fixed heterozygosity in accordance with their alloploid origin.

6. Genetic analysis of C. ribicola isolates from different aecial and telial hosts provided no evidence for genetic differentiation and showed similar levels of expected heterozygosity within a geographic population.

7. Four animals were examined from this population and all possessed an identical 2n = 21 karyotype characterized by homozygosity for a derived acrocentric chromosome 3 (3a) and heterozygosity for a 9–10 fusion.

8. Central fusion of two of the haploid products of meiosis (see diagram) tends to maintain heterozygosity in transmission of the genome from mother to offspring, and to minimise inbreeding depression.

9. The identification of a somatic "second hit" in most Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHD)-associated renal tumors strongly suggests that FLCN functions as a tumor suppressor.Both somatic point mutations in the wild-type FLCN allele and loss of heterozygosity at chromosome 17p have been identified, although the former appears to be the more common mechanism of inactivation of the …