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  • noun The state of being hemizygous

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  • In accordance with this, Prescott et al. [25] found in a Df1 mouse model of the 22q11 deletion syndrome that none out of 21 genes adjacent to the transcription factor Tbx1 convincingly demonstrated a nonlinear response to Df1 hemizygosity at the mRNA level.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010

  • Gallardo ME, Lopez-Rios J, Fernaud-Espinosa I, Granadino B, Sanz R, et al. (1999) Genomic cloning and characterization of the human homeobox gene SIX6 reveals a cluster of SIX genes in chromosome 14 and associates SIX6 hemizygosity with bilateral anophthalmia and pituitary anomalies.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hortensia Sanchez-Calderon et al. 2010

  • Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that hemizygosity of the

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