homozygosity

English

Etymology

From homozygous +‎ -ity.

Noun

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.

Related terms

• heterozygosity
• homozygous
• zygosity

Translations

condition of being homozygous

• French: homozygotie (fr) f
• German: Homozygotie f, Reinerbigkeit f, Homozygosität f
• Polish: homozygotyczność f