heterozygosity
Noun
Meaning
the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene
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Allelic diversity was measured at 2.7–3.3 in the subpopulations sampled, and heterozygosity was in the range 0.386–0.467.
Breeders must avoid breeding from individuals that demonstrate either homozygosity or heterozygosity for disease causing alleles.
Increased heterozygosity in a population will also increase microsatellite mutation rates, citation especially when there is a large length difference between alleles.
The results implied that SNP prior information including annotation categories and total LD score in conjunction with heterozygosity can be leveraged to increase power for gene discovery in GWAS of neuroticism.
We prioritized SNPs based on their prior information, including genic annotation categories, total LD score and heterozygosity to construct a relative enrichment score () for each SNP.