Examples of homozygote in a Sentence
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The findings suggest that people with two copies of the gene—who are called APOE4 homozygotes—have a distinct genetic form of Alzheimer’s.
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Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
Analyzing data from more than 13,000 people, researchers found that among APOE4 homozygotes, people who carry two copies of the gene variant, nearly all showed biological signs of Alzheimer’s in the brain.
—Elaine Chen Reprints, STAT, 7 May 2024
Most of you have seen a Punnet square, whereby heterozygous parents will produce offspring in ratios where 50% are heterozygous, and 25% one homozygote and 25% another.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
Interestingly the persistent individual in the Longar location also a homozygote.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2012
Another reason may be that in the original parental lineages there was a higher fraction of alleles which were deleterious in homozygote genotypes.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
The mother is probably a heteozygote, and the father is a homozygote.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2011
But consider a scenario where one parent is a heterozygote, and the other a homozygote for the dominant trait.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
For one thing, 35delG homozygotes sometimes only have mild hearing impairment.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2019
Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
Analyzing data from more than 13,000 people, researchers found that among APOE4 homozygotes, people who carry two copies of the gene variant, nearly all showed biological signs of Alzheimer’s in the brain.
—Elaine Chen Reprints, STAT, 7 May 2024
Most of you have seen a Punnet square, whereby heterozygous parents will produce offspring in ratios where 50% are heterozygous, and 25% one homozygote and 25% another.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
Interestingly the persistent individual in the Longar location also a homozygote.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2012
Another reason may be that in the original parental lineages there was a higher fraction of alleles which were deleterious in homozygote genotypes.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
The mother is probably a heteozygote, and the father is a homozygote.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2011
But consider a scenario where one parent is a heterozygote, and the other a homozygote for the dominant trait.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
For one thing, 35delG homozygotes sometimes only have mild hearing impairment.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2019
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homozygote
noun
ho·mo·zy·gote
ˌhō-mə-ˈzī-ˌgōt 
: a homozygous individual
Medical Definition
homozygote
noun
ho·mo·zy·gote
-ˈzī-ˌgōt
: a homozygous individual
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