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What does heterozygous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of an organism which has two different alleles of a given gene.
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If a mother is heterozygous for a particular sex-linked gene, her son has a 50% chance of inheriting either allele from her.
We sequenced genomic DNA from heterozygous animals in an attempt to identify the remaining mutations.
This method magnifies the effect of heterozygous mutations on the posterior phenotypes, thus identifying even lethal genes involved in the targeted process.
In addition, researchers studied persons with diabetes, obesity, individuals heterozygous for phenylketonuria, and lactating women.
All families harbored compound heterozygous mutations, most commonly a truncating mutation combined with a missense mutation.
Animals developed as perfectly normal hermaphrodites if derived from a heterozygous hermaphrodite mother.

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