Compound heterozygote

Compound heterozygote

In genetics, a compound heterozygote is an organism that has two different alleles, both mutated, at the same locus. That is, for a locus A with normal allele A1 and mutant alleles A2 and A3, a compound heterozygote will be A2/A3.


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