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  • adjective Originating from the same zygote.

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Examples

  • It arises in one individual but spreads in population in heterozygotic form, untill in becomes frequent enough to produce homozygotic mutants people who inherited it from both parents.

    Just call him/her Ol’ Blue Eyes 2010

  • I interviewd Dick Swaab - whose lab did the BSTc stuff - he pointed out that homozygotic twins have far from identical brains at birth.

    Brains, Genes, Nature and Nurture Zoe Brain 2007

  • PERIOD3 (PER3) in response to TSD by using a small group of subjects (n = 24 of various ethnicities) recruited specifically for the homozygotic versions of this polymorphism.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Namni Goel et al. 2009

  • d was set equal to zero if the heterozygote differed less than 5% from the mean of the homozygotic values.

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

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