hemizygous
Britishadjective
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Males are said to be hemizygous, because they have only one allele for any X-linked characteristic.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
In this case, sex-linked traits will be more likely to appear in the female, in whom they are hemizygous.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
This difference is expected because the population size of the chromosome is three quarters that of autosomes, and the chromosome can experience greater purifying selection because of exposure of deleterious recessive alleles in hemizygous males.
From Nature • Feb. 8, 2012
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
For a gene to cause HI when both homozygous and hemizygous, but not when heterozygous, strongly implies that the HI gene is behaving like a loss-of-function mutation in a hybrid background.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 15, 2011
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