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The runs of homozygosity within isolated Wrangel Island mammoths were four times as great as those before sea levels rose.
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Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 29 June 2024
This conclusion was based on a DNA statistic called runs of homozygosity (ROH).
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2019
Using the most sensitive measure of recent consanguinity, a statistic of run of homozygosity pruned of markers in linkage disequilibrium, the authors did not find a strong effect of magnitude of inbreeding increasing the depression.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2012
Even in cases where individuals are healthy there is likely a fitness drag due to elevated homozygosity across the genome.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2013
The South Indian woman had lower levels of aggregate homozygosity.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2010
Second, even genomewide homozygosity has some independent relationship to depression in height.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2012
When researchers compared the Altai Neanderthal’s two genomes, there were long segments of practically identical DNA — runs of homozygosity.
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2019
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Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 29 June 2024
This conclusion was based on a DNA statistic called runs of homozygosity (ROH).
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2019
Using the most sensitive measure of recent consanguinity, a statistic of run of homozygosity pruned of markers in linkage disequilibrium, the authors did not find a strong effect of magnitude of inbreeding increasing the depression.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2012
Even in cases where individuals are healthy there is likely a fitness drag due to elevated homozygosity across the genome.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2013
The South Indian woman had lower levels of aggregate homozygosity.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2010
Second, even genomewide homozygosity has some independent relationship to depression in height.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2012
When researchers compared the Altai Neanderthal’s two genomes, there were long segments of practically identical DNA — runs of homozygosity.
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2019
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“Homozygosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homozygosity. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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homozygosity
noun
ho·mo·zy·gos·i·ty
ˌhō-mə-zī-ˈgäs-ət-ē 
: the state of being homozygous
Medical Definition
homozygosity
noun
ho·mo·zy·gos·i·ty
-ˈgäs-ət-ē
plural homozygosities
: the state of being homozygous
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