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Concept information

Preferred term

loss of heterozygosity

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Definition

  • Information The loss of one allele at a specific locus, caused by a deletion mutation; or loss of a chromosome from a chromosome pair, resulting in abnormal hemizygosity. It is detected when heterozygous markers for a locus appear monomorphic because one of the alleles was deleted.

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Synonyms

  • allelic loss

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https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/324472

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