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Meaning of "homozygosity" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HOMOZYGOSITY

ˌhəʊməʊzaɪˈɡɒsɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMOZYGOSITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Homozygosity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOMOZYGOSITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Zygosity

Zygosity is the degree of similarity of the alleles for a trait in an organism. Most eukaryotes have two matching sets of chromosomes; that is, they are diploid. Diploid organisms have the same loci on each of their two sets of homologous chromosomes, except that the sequences at these loci may differ between the two chromosomes in a matching pair and that a few chromosomes may be mismatched as part of a chromosomal sex-determination system. If both alleles of a diploid organism are the same, the organism is homozygous at that locus. If they are different, the organism is heterozygous at that locus. If one allele is missing, it is hemizygous, and, if both alleles are missing, it is nullizygous. The DNA sequence of a gene often varies from one individual to another. Those variations are called alleles. While some genes have only one allele because there is low variation, others have only one allele because only that allele can function properly. Any variation from the DNA sequence of that allele will be fatal in the embryo, and the organism will never survive to be born. But most genes have two or more alleles.

Definition of homozygosity in the English dictionary

The definition of homozygosity in the dictionary is the condition or fact of being homozygous.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMOZYGOSITY

animosity · atrocity · curiosity · fabulosity · ferocity · fungosity · generosity · grandiosity · heterozygosity · luminosity · monstrosity · pomposity · porosity · reciprocity · religiosity · rugosity · tuberosity · velocity · viscosity · zygosity

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOMOZYGOSITY

homotaxic · homotaxis · homothallic · homothallism · homothally · homothermal · homothermic · homothermous · homothermy · homotonic · homotonous · homotony · homotransplant · homotype · Homousian · homozygosis · homozygote · homozygotic · homozygous · homozygously

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMOZYGOSITY

bellicosity · callosity · glutinosity · hyperviscosity · impetuosity · kinematic viscosity · microporosity · nebulosity · numerosity · schistosity · scrupulosity · serosity · sinuosity · speciosity · tediosity · tortuosity · unctuosity · university · varicosity · verbosity · virtuosity

Synonyms and antonyms of homozygosity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «homozygosity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMOZYGOSITY

Find out the translation of homozygosity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of homozygosity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «homozygosity» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

纯合子
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

homocigosis
570 millions of speakers
en

English

homozygosity
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

homozygosity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

زيجوت متماثلة الألائل
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

гомозиготность
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

homozigose
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

homozygosity
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

homozygotie
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Homozygosity
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Homozygotie
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

同型接合性
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

동질 접합체
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Homozygosity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đồng hợp tử
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

ஒத்தப்புணரித்தன்மையை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

आनुवंशिकता
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

homozigositesi
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

omozigosi
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

homozygotyczność
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

гомозиготность
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

homozigozitatii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομοζυγωτία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

homozygosity
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

homozygositet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

homozygosity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of homozygosity

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMOZYGOSITY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about homozygosity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMOZYGOSITY»

Discover the use of homozygosity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to homozygosity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Color Atlas of Genetics
The chance of homozygosity by descent at a given locus in their offspring is 'U ( ' l2 each from C and D to E). First cousins share '/a of their genes (2), second cousins 1/32. The chance of homozygosity by descent in the offspring of first cousins ...
Eberhard Passarge, 2011
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Principles and Practice of Clinical Research
Uses Homozygosity Mapping Consanguinity (i.e., mating between blood relatives ) increases the likelihood that a child will inherit two copies of the same deleterious allele. Because inherited alleles are identical by descent, they typically occur ...
John I. Gallin, Frederick P Ognibene, 2012
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The History and Geography of Human Genes
Table 2.12.1 (continued) Calculations of local homozygosity were also made for each locus and each map point from the gene-frequency maps, and averaged over all loci. A map of homozygosity was thus generated (fig. 2.12.1). Average ...
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, Alberto Piazza, 1994
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Aquaculture and Fisheries Biotechnology and Genetics
This buffering, threshold effect or canalization is further illustrated by the relationship between homozygosity and inbreeding depression, which is not linear. Threshold effects are observed and epistasis is likely involved in establishing these ...
Rex A. Dunham, 2011
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Haemoglobinopathy Diagnosis
Table 3.10 Genotypes that can produce the phenotype of b thalassaemia intermedia. Homozygosity or compound heterozygosity for mild or very mild b+ thalassaemia alleles, e.g. CAP +1 AÆC, IVS1 6 TÆC, +33 CÆG, –101 CÆT, –88 CÆT, ...
Barbara J. Bain, 2008
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Characterizing Regions Associated with Genomic Instability ...
tumors, the graphs indicated the chromosomes that showed complete homozygosity and partial homozygosity. These were in concordance with the genotype graph. An example of this measurement is shown in Fig. 5, which displays LOH ...
Smitha S. Dutt, 2007
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Renal Transplantation: Sense and Sensitization
Regression X2. Chapter 5 starts ofl' from the ground gained in Chapter 4 and climbs higher by successively adding locus-specific homozygosity and antigen- specific terms to the regression model which distinguishes between highly sensitized ...
S.M. Gore, B.A. Bradley, 1988
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Degenerative Retinopathies: Advances in Clinical and Genetic ...
HOMOZYGOSITY MAPPING In a child with a recessive disease whose parents are related, a region of several centimorgans on either side of the disease gene will nearly always be homozygous by descent4. Many other regions will also be ...
Peter Humphries, Shomi Bhattacharya, Alan C. Bird, 1991
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Genetics of Populations
TABLE 6.6 Allele frequencies and the observed Hardy–Weinberg homozygosity, fe, from three different hypothetical samples with four alleles and a sample size of 200. 3 0.965 0.025 0.005 0.005 0.932 Too uneven To carry out the test ...
Philip W. Hedrick, 2011
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Issues in Genetic Medicine: 2011 Edition
New investigation results, 'Homozygosity for constitutional chromosomal rearrangements: a systematic review with reference to origin, ascertainment and phenotype,' are detailed in a study published in Journal of Human Genetics. According ...
‎2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMOZYGOSITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term homozygosity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Parent–progeny sequencing indicates higher mutation rates in …
The residual homozygosity might be caused by biased library construction. In fact, as expected, most (15) of them have a total depth less than or around half of ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
Genetics: Feedforward loop for diversity
Much goes wrong in inbred organisms owing to an increase in homozygosity (in which the two alleles of a gene are identical), which increases ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
Missense variants in AIMP1 gene are implicated in autosomal …
By the combination of homozygosity mapping and next generation sequencing, we identified two homozygous missense variants, p. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Novel and recurrent CIB2 variants, associated with nonsyndromic …
Genotype calling and calculation of the regions of homozygosity was performed with the Genotyping Console software (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
5
Can whole-exome sequencing data be used for linkage analysis?
When individuals affected by a recessive disease are inbred, homozygosity mapping will identify homozygous regions of the genome where all ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Genetic variance components and heritability of multiallelic …
For the latter two measures, additivity across loci is therefore not guaranteed. For example, the measure of homozygosity by loci (Aparicio et al., ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Comparison of genomic signatures of selection on Plasmodium …
A between-population Rsb metric comparing extended haplotype homozygosity indicated a stronger signal within Kintampo for one of these ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jul 15»
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Kids of distant relatives are slightly shorter, less academic
Overall, heterozygosity increases the genetic diversity in offspring, whereas homozygosity makes them particularly susceptible to genetic ... «Ars Technica UK, Jul 15»
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Study discovers potential link between inherited genome-wide DNA …
"There is no study that has examined whether genome-wide homozygosity levels are a risk factor for CAD and whether ROHs might play a role ... «News-Medical.net, Jul 15»
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Study finds link between inherited DNA sequences and heart disease
"There is no study that has examined whether genome-wide homozygosity levels are a risk factor for CAD and whether ROHs might play a role ... «Medical Xpress, Jul 15»
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