HOMOZYGOSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homozygosity mean? 

• HOMOZYGOSITY (noun)
  The noun HOMOZYGOSITY has 1 sense:

1. the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene

  Familiarity information: HOMOZYGOSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMOZYGOSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("homozygosity" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Antonym:

heterozygosity (the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene)

Derivation:

homozygous (having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci)

 Context examples 

Hypermethylation-based silencing or loss of homozygosity of the gene occurs in many cases of bladder cancer.

(DBC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

No abnormal phenotype has been definitely identified with autosomal fragile sites, but some rare autosomal recessive disorders may be due to homozygosity for fragile sites.

(Chromosome Fragile Site, NCI Thesaurus)