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Homozygous genes within a population are hardly ever good.
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Homozygous recessive at the epistatic locus and, wa-la, no expression of the W/M locus…
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Homozygous mutations can occur even in somatic tissue culture giving this technique an edge over conventional mutation breeding.
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Homozygous plants are those with only one allele for a gene.
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Homozygous and double heterozygous transgenic mouse models of HCM have recapitulated increased disease severity and loss of cardiac function similar to phenotypes observed in humans
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Homozygous mutant mice present highly compromised embryonic viability and fertility.
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Homozygous rats deficient in the p53 protein are expected to be prone to spontaneous tumors and will be valuable for in vivo screening of carcinogenicity, as well as studying chemopreventive and therapeutic treatment.
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Homozygous and heterozygous mutant mice exhibit craniofacial alterations, most clearly represented in homozygous condition.
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Homozygous rats deficient in the p53 protein are expected to be prone to spontaneous tumors and will be valuable for in vivo screening of carcinogenicity, as well as studying chemopreventive and therapeutic treatment.
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DeSanctis R, Farver CF, Seidman JG, et al. (2000) Homozygous mutation in cardiac troponin T: implications for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer Davis et al. 2010
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