Homozygosity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being homozygous. uncountable, usually

    "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."

  2. 2
    the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene wordnet

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"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."

Etymology

From homozygous + -ity.

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