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heterodisomy

heterodisomy noun: the inheritance of a pair of non-identical chromosomes from one parent.

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

Forms of heterodisomy

pluralheterodisomies

Origin of heterodisomy

From hetero- + disomy.

Questions about heterodisomy

What does heterodisomy mean?
Heterodisomy means the inheritance of a pair of non-identical chromosomes from one parent.
What part of speech is heterodisomy?
Heterodisomy is a noun.
What is the plural of heterodisomy?
The plural of heterodisomy is heterodisomies.

Words near heterodisomy in the dictionary

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

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