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Autozygome decoded.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Dec 2010
Alkuraya Fowzan S
Abstract excerpt
Consanguineous unions permit the "reunion" of ancestral chromosomal segments in a pattern referred to as "autozygosity," which is essentially a special form of homozygosity. This has long been exploited as a gene mapping tool because it is relatively easy to track a recessive mutation by the surrounding pattern of homozygous markers. The recent advent of single nucleotide polymorphism microarrays has rapidly...
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