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  • adjective genetics Having some single copies of genes in an otherwise diploid cell or organism

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hemi- + -zygous

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Examples

  • We will also consider the hemizygous locus case where either is identically zero because one of the alleles has been knocked out.

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

  • These initial descriptive studies in male hemizygous mice have revealed brain abnormalities seen in both RTT and mental retardation.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Combinations of wild type and hemizygous genotypes for ATM and BRCA1 were tested in various comparisons.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Fengtao Su 2010

  • FISH combined with cytoplasmic light chain detection (cIg-FISH) detected hemizygous 1p21 deletions in 18 % of the MM, 34% of PCL but none of the MGUS cases.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs H Chang 2010

  • Note that the homozygous deletion (400 kb) is embedded within a hemizygous deletion region (4 Mb).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mitsutaka Kadota et al. 2010

  • As expected given that the Z chromosome in the reference female is hemizygous, we predominantly saw positions with two or three reads.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Carl-Johan Rubin 2010

  • Combinations of wild type and hemizygous genotypes for ATM and BRCA1 were tested in various comparisons.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Fengtao Su 2010

  • The hemizygous males and homozygous females appeared normal at birth and developed well as shown in

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tomoji Mashimo et al. 2010

  • Two adjacent homozygous and hemizygous deletions are observed in MCF7

    GEN News Highlights 2009

  • These hemizygous deletions, from two copies to one copy, are manifest as a downward deflection in the log R ratio and a loss of heterozygotes in the AF.

    GEN News Highlights 2009

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