This event is called “loss of heterozygosity” and is not inherited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genetic defect, recessive, dominant, sporadic, LOH] Reference

Kimura Kimura, 1968 used the heterozygosity problem to advance the neutral theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haldane's non-dilemma - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

There is also an unusual phenomenon called loss of heterozygosity (LOH) whichis described below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genetic defect, recessive, dominant, sporadic, LOH] Reference

The authors concluded that heterozygosity explained only a very small amount of variation in symmetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Academic Dishonesty] Reference

Outbreeding groups of organisms with high degrees of heterozygosity tend to be fitter than inbred groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern humans may have inherited some Neanderthal genes - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

One important effect of random drift is to decrease the degree of heterozygosity in a population over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Population Genetics] Reference

The self-fertile species should have less heterozygosity and consequently should retain fewer of the deleterious recessives.    From Wordnik.com.  [8 Research Needs] Reference

Back in the lab, the freshened Stephie tries to engage Gus in a deep conversation about the loss of heterozygosity or some other such nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Pten and maintained Pten levels above heterozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Here we report that heterozygosity for tomato loss-of-function alleles of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Despite interest in the loss of heterozygosity at chromosomal location 18q as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

We calculated allelic richness and average heterozygosity using Arlequin v. 2.0.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

To check for a selective sweep, a relative decrease in heterozygosity was evaluated.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Agabus nevadensis displays a significant deviating pattern in observed heterozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

SFT heterozygosity is robust, occurring in distinct genetic backgrounds and environments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

One unique feature of the SNP chip is its capacity for detecting loss of heterozygosity (LOH).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In normal/tumor pairwise analysis, there was significant loss of heterozygosity (LOH) for the c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elites TV] Reference

Populations differ in their heterozygosity, hence their microsatellites evolve at different rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dienekes' Anthropology Blog] Reference

The reduction in heterozygosity, a measure of genetic variation, from Africa to Eurasians was large.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

In a growing population, heterozygosity increases, while small populations tend to be more homozygous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dienekes' Anthropology Blog] Reference

Normalized relative heterozygosity (x axis) is plotted against position on CFA 1 in Mb (y axis) using a.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Second, the Pygmy sample shows a low SNP heterozygosity despite relatively high haplotype heterozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

Menken SBJ (1987) Is the extremely low heterozygosity level in Yponomeuta rorellus caused by bottlenecks?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

When determining results for a decrease in heterozygosity relative to controls, all dogs with a call rate of >.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In particular, heterozygosity at 129 was negatively correlated with heterozygosity with 127 within individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

In contrast, the derivation for the case control study does assume independence of heterozygosity and magnitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Derivation of the parameters 'indel heterozygosity' and 'length effect' used in our linear model of recombination.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

We find the mean and maximum numbers of repeats across individuals to be positively correlated with heterozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Finally, we find that microsatellites containing more separate sets of repeated motifs generally have higher heterozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Moreover, in the presence of hyperlipidemia and chronic inflammation, Mclk1 heterozygosity is incapable of extending lifespan.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

The average allele number of the 41 microsatellites was 4.85 + / - 0.54, while the expected heterozygosity was 0.56 + / - 0.03.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

There was, however, a weak correlation at the sibship level between mean growth rate and microsatellite expected heterozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Given a sufficiently narrow bottleneck, this change in allelic richness should be followed by a concomitant loss of heterozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Jingjing's two copies of DNA in each of her cells differed in many places, demonstrating a surprisingly high rate of heterozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference

(~60%) in whole-genome sequence data, a Khoisan individual showed low heterozygosity on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

All the other significant correlations (loss of heterozygosity for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference