Heterozygosity effects in studies of genetic markers and disease.

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Examples were discussed where heterozygosity was associated with increased or decreased disease risks and where the apparent mechanism is direct functional involvement of gene products and not linkage disequilibrium. Special attention was paid to the impact of Hp (haptoglobin) heterozygosity on a number of different multifactorial disorders. When phenotype distributions in patients show large deviations from the...

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