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Hemizygosity

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Translation hemizygosity into russian

hemizygosity
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Hemizygosity occurs when an individual has only one allele for a gene instead of the usual two.
Гемизиготность возникает, когда у индивидуума есть только один аллель гена вместо обычных двух.

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hemizygosity
Noun
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The condition of having only one allele of a gene or chromosome segment instead of the typical two, often due to deletion or the presence of a single copy of a gene in a diploid organism.
In males, hemizygosity occurs for genes located on the X chromosome, as they have only one X chromosome.