It is often the opposite process of inbreeding depression, which increases homozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeeLight:] Reference

In general, inbreeding will tend to increase the homozygosity of a population, like positive assortment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Population Genetics] Reference

"This observation is remarkable because homozygosity for CCR5 delta32 is associated with high but not complete resistance to HIV-1," he noted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem Cell Transplants Squashed HIV and Leukemia] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]

This happens because, given enough time, any finite population will eventually become homozygous through drift (though if the population is large, the approach to homozygosity will be slow.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Population Genetics] Reference

When the leukemia relapsed after 7 months, the patient received allogeneic stem-cell transplantation with CD34-positive peripheral-blood stem cells from a donor who had been screened for homozygosity for the 32-bp deletion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem Cell Transplants Squashed HIV and Leukemia] Reference

Then by self-pollination you can increase the homozygosity each generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog] Reference

These results confirmed homozygosity of the DR4-H2E transgene in the parental line.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Avp display opposite homozygosity in HAB (+ / + and CC) vs. LAB (− / − and TT) animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Prenatal diagnosis involves DNA test to confirm homozygosity, parental ultrasound test etc.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Strong selection for desirable phenotypic traits that bred true led to homozygosity within breeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

A premature infant with fetal myocardial and abdominal calcifications and factor V Leiden homozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

The intercross was followed by 8 backcrosses to WF before intercrossing to establish homozygosity for both the.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Among 2,500 ENU-mutagenized G3 mice screened, we have thus far bred three non-responsive mutations to homozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Second, valine homozygosity is associated with a slower rate of memory decline in our entire sample, not just those who developed dementia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Inbreeding can thus cause homozygosity for deleterious alleles to become prevalent in a population, which reduces the overall population fitness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Genetic analysis demonstrated methionine homozygosity at codon 129 and no mutations or other variations in the open reading frame of the PrP gene.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

All SNPs were located in putative selective sweep regions identified in an initial screen for chromosomal regions showing a high degree of homozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

This is important here because variation in the mutation rate causes differences in the level of within-subpopulation homozygosity between ms simulation models.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Lili is a information technology systems up, and says she toughly got my oxidisation, and constrainedly got out of the homozygosity, and is translational revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Black boxes indicate homozygosity for the race 2 (R2) genotype, white boxes indicate homozygosity for race 7 (R7) genotype, and grey boxes indicate heterozygosity (H).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

At a similar physical distance, LD, haplotype homozygosity, haploblock structure, and haplotype sharing were all lower for the micro - as compared to the macrochromosomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Also, autosomal recessive omodysplasia is a genetic condition characterized by severe short stature and congenital heart defects, caused by homozygosity for null mutations in GPC6.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The LCA and RP patients that are negative for this detailed screen are then subjected to a second DNA chip, this one to identify significant stretches of homozygosity in SNP markers.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

It is important to note that they found that deviation was significant in particular for older women, precisely the group which would have been subject to selection against homozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

A female lemur's scent normally conveys not only her fertility status, but also information about identity, her relatedness to others and her genetic homozygosity, an indicator of in-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Owing to the complex and partly unknown demography of these populations, it is difficult to define a strict threshold that distinguishes true sweeps from regions of homozygosity caused by drift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

To explore the role of DR4 homozygosity versus murine H2 class II deficiency on tumor occurrence, DR4 animals were crossed with wildtype C57BL/6 mice, yielding DR4 heterozygous F1 mice which carry one normal H2.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

We use the standardized population differentiation metric G 'st, G'st allows the unbiased comparison of population differentiation between data sets that differ in the level of within-subpopulation homozygosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Which of the following materials can be eliminated from the blood by secretion into the nephron tubes? if on average 46% of the loci in a species gene pool are heterozygous then the average homozygosity of the spe?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

"First, some (but not all) prior work has shown that at cross-section valine homozygosity was associated with better mental status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Both groups showed complete homozygosity at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

That sort of thing comes from "homozygosity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cracked: All Posts] Reference

However, the low-resolution homozygosity of HLA-A, B.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference