heterodisomy

English

Etymology

hetero- +‎ disomy

Noun

heterodisomy (uncountable)

  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, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0131157:
      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.
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