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homozygousity

homozygousity is the alternative form of homozygosity.

Meaning of homozygosity

Noun

homozygosity (usually uncountable, plural homozygosities)

  1. (usually) The condition of being homozygous.
    • It depends on whether those runs of homozygosity contain recessive disease-causing mutations. All of us have some of these runs in our DNA—usually less than 1 percent of the genome in Western populations, higher in cultures where cousin marriage is common.2024 March 18, Sarah Zhang, “DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest”, in The Atlantic

Questions about homozygousity

What is homozygousity the alternative form of?
Homozygousity is the alternative form of homozygosity.

Words near homozygousity in the dictionary

  1. homozygosity
  2. homozygote
  3. homozygotes
  4. homozygotic
  5. homozygous
  6. homozygousity
  7. homozygously
  8. homozygousness
  9. homozygozity
  10. homprenorphine
  11. homrai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homozygousity (page history and authors); homozygosity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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