homozygosity

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homozygosity (usually uncountable, plural homozygosities)

  1. 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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