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heterodisomic

heterodisomic adjective: relating to heterodisomy.

Adjective

heterodisomic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to heterodisomy.
    • In heterodisomic UPD, two distinct homologous chromosomes are received from one parent, indicating that an error took place during meiosis I.2015 July 21, Jiawei Xu et al., “Genome-wide uniparental disomy screen in human discarded morphologically abnormal embryos”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI

Origin of heterodisomic

From hetero- + disomic.

Questions about heterodisomic

What does heterodisomic mean?
Heterodisomic means relating to heterodisomy.
What part of speech is heterodisomic?
Heterodisomic is an adjective.

Words near heterodisomic in the dictionary

  1. heterodiploid
  2. heterodiploids
  3. heterodirectional
  4. heterodisaccharide
  5. heterodisaccharides
  6. heterodisomic
  7. heterodisomies
  8. heterodisomy
  9. heterodisperse
  10. heterodispersed
  11. heterodispersity

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