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Loss of Heterozygosity

"Loss of Heterozygosity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Loss of Heterozygosity" by people in this website by year, and whether "Loss of Heterozygosity" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2003 and 2006 and 2007 and 2009
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