heterodisomy

English

Etymology

hetero- +‎ disomy

Noun

heterodisomy (countable and uncountable, plural heterodisomies)

1. (genetics) The inheritance of a pair of non-identical chromosomes from one parent
   • 2015 July 9, “Detection of Hereditary 1,25-Hydroxyvitamin D-Resistant Rickets Caused by Uniparental Disomy of Chromosome 12 Using Genome-Wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Array”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Both of isodisomy and heterodisomy can cause genome imprinting disorders, but only uniparental isodisomy can cause recessive disorders if the chromosome harbors a disease-causing mutation.

Related terms

• isodisomy