isodisomy

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English

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Etymology

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From iso- +‎ disomy.

Noun

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isodisomy (usually uncountable, plural isodisomies)

  1. The duplication of a single chromosome inherited 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:
      Genome-wide SNP array of the family (the patient and her parents) showed complete maternal isodisomy of chromosome 12.
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