heterozygous for eye color.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The R275W polymorphism in Parkin and the G411S polymorphism in PINK1 have only been identified as heterozygous polymorphisms in cases of Parkinson disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

This information was used to validate the sequence of the more complicated "heterozygous" golden delicious apple (in which duplicated chromosomes are not identical).    From Wordnik.com.  [Food IngredientsFIrst News] Reference

Heterosis is an example of heterozygous advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeeLight:] Reference

The heterozygous phenotype may be at no selective disadvantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilder: "Intelligent design itself does not have any content" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Such individuals have 45 chromosomes; being heterozygous for the fusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dog Bites Man - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The milder form of FH (heterozygous) is much more common, about one in 200-500 people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology or Medicine 1985 - Press Release] Reference

Unfortunately, the article does not address how heterozygous individuals one copy of each gene type act.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Stalin, Child Abuse, and Crime - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

All that is required is a female animal bearing one or more chromosome rearrangements in heterozygous form.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

One source said it decreases disease risk by 70% So this gene, in heterozygous form, confers HIV resistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

Turns out that the supervisor was heterozygous for sickle-cell anemia, and a carrier for the malaria parasite.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Geographic on malaria - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Indeed, it may seem to Kolmogoroff that all the plants produced by different pairs of heterozygous parents of the Aa type are alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shannon Information and Biological Fitness - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

It was shown that most mutant genes are incompletely recessive (not «overdominant») and are acted upon by selection while heterozygous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermann J. Muller - Biography] Reference

We addressed this issue by screening CARD15 for mutations in 100 CD patients who were heterozygous for one of the three common mutations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another One Bites the Dust - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Can confers both strong positive and strong negative attributes, or a weaker positive result, depending if homozygous or heterozygous in expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsweek on Tiktaalik and Pandas - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The participants had heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, or HeFH, a rare genetic disease in which people have severely high levels of bad cholesterol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merck Halts Study] Reference

Perhaps the behaviour of inbred and homozygous mice is not the best theoretical guide to what may be expected of animals so obstinately heterozygous as human beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Medawar - Nobel Lecture] Reference

From studies across a number of species, it was estimated that 15-40% of all loci were polymorphic and the average individual was heterozygous at 5-15% of its genome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolutionary Genetics] Reference

But no problems seemed to occur in genes that were immediately medically important, or if they did, Watson was heterozygous, meaning he had one good copy of the gene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The $1,000 Genome] Reference

There are many examples in which the heterozygous phenotype even has an advantage in some environmental circumstances, the sickle cell gene being one of the most famous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilder: "Intelligent design itself does not have any content" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

In the classic human example, both a homozygous individual and a heterozygous one can have brown eyes, though the latter has one gene for brown eyes and one for blue eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Dogs] Reference

The heterozygous form, on the other hand, is obviously the best form to have since it confers this resistance and has very few side-effects unless you are climbing a mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [How do you like your eggs in the morning?] Reference

A similar doubling may occur if the eater happens to be one of the perhaps 10 million Americans (22) who are, without knowing it, heterozygous for the phenylketonuria (PKU) gene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santa Fe Pediatrician Regales Hawaii Legislative Committee with Dangers of Aspartame] Reference

Genetic variation within a population is commonly measured as the percentage of gene loci that are polymorphic or the percentage of gene loci in individuals that are heterozygous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genetic variation] Reference

Figure 3: NMDA receptor surface expression is reduced in SNAP-23 heterozygous mice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Patients are said to have the heterozygous FH if they inherited a defective gene from one parent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

All the transgenic mice analyzed were heterozygous for the transgene, and segregated at the expected Mendelian rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The companies did not say when they would ask for approval in heterozygous FH, which affects about one person out of 500.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

The differential modes of incorporation have implications for the double mutants studied here and for double heterozygous patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Following homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells, targeted heterozygous mice containing the targeted allele were obtained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

The trial studied mipomersen against heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, one of several types of genetic high cholesterol diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

Mice heterozygous for the gene trapped allele were phenotypically normal, but homozygous mutant embryos did not survive beyond 10.5 days post coitum.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

If the two eqns. (4) have identical parameters and rate functions, the system describes a homozygous locus, otherwise it describes a heterozygous locus.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference