hemizygous
Britishadjective
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In this case, sex-linked traits will be more likely to appear in the female, in which they are hemizygous.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Males are said to be hemizygous, because they have only one allele for any X-linked characteristic.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Mice were then intercrossed to obtain ‘CPPSML’ males with homozygous status of Pten, p53, and Smad4, heterozygous status of mTmG and LSL-LUC, and hemizygous status of PB-Cre.
From Nature • Mar. 19, 2017
New -linked mutations are directly exposed to selection each generation in hemizygous males, and the chromosome has greater recombination than autosomes; both of these factors could contribute to this observation.
From Nature • Feb. 8, 2012
There are two ways in which hemizygous males might fail to detect hybrid lethality effects seen in hemizygous females.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 15, 2011
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