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heterodisomies

heterodisomies is the plural of heterodisomy.

Meaning of heterodisomy

Noun

heterodisomy (countable and uncountable, plural heterodisomies)

  1. The inheritance of a pair of non-identical chromosomes from one parent
    • Both of isodisomy and heterodisomy can cause genome imprinting disorders, but only uniparental isodisomy can cause recessive disorders if the chromosome harbors a disease-causing mutation.2015 July 9, “Detection of Hereditary 1,25-Hydroxyvitamin D-Resistant Rickets Caused by Uniparental Disomy of Chromosome 12 Using Genome-Wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Array”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about heterodisomies

What is heterodisomies the plural of?
Heterodisomies is the plural of heterodisomy.

Words near heterodisomies in the dictionary

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

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