homozygosity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From homozygous + -ity.
Noun
[edit]homozygosity (usually uncountable, plural homozygosities)
- The condition of being homozygous.
- 2024 March 18, Sarah Zhang, “DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- It depends on whether those runs of homozygosity contain recessive disease-causing mutations. All of us have some of these runs in our DNA—usually less than 1 percent of the genome in Western populations, higher in cultures where cousin marriage is common.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]condition of being homozygous
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