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• It is often the opposite process of inbreeding depression, which increases homozygosity.
• In general, inbreeding will tend to increase the homozygosity of a population, like positive assortment.
• "This observation is remarkable because homozygosity for CCR5 delta32 is associated with high but not complete resistance to HIV-1," he noted.
• While the gene pool in the population was fixed, homozygosity for every desired trait-including some that were not sex-linked-had proven to be a biological impossibility.