Heterodisomy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The inheritance of a pair of non-identical chromosomes from one parent countable, uncountable

    "Both of isodisomy and heterodisomy can cause genome imprinting disorders, but only uniparental isodisomy can cause recessive disorders if the chromosome harbors a disease-causing mutation."

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"Both of isodisomy and heterodisomy can cause genome imprinting disorders, but only uniparental isodisomy can cause recessive disorders if the chromosome harbors a disease-causing mutation."

Etymology

From hetero- + disomy.

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