Meanings
nounheterodisomy (countable and uncountable, plural heterodisomies)
plural heterodisomies
- countableuncountablebiologyThe 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
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