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Heterozygous
Heterozygous means having different allele of a given gene.
In the following example, locus 2 is homozygous, whereas loci 1 and 3 are heterozygous.
Definitions in the literature
- having two different alleles of a gene [1].
- carrying two different alleles of a given gene; also called hybrid [2].
