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- noun Plural form of
hemizygote .
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S. cerevisiae is very well suited as a model organism in this context since a collection of hemizygotes (i.e. heterozygous knockouts) for all nonessential genes is already available
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010
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(A) Phenotype axis with five genotypic values for five genotypes (two homozygote, one heterozygote and two hemizygotes) for a biallelic locus
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010
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Consider a biallelic locus X with homozygote genotypes and the two hemizygotes (only one allele present).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010
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