Abstract This research is the first to produce induced pluripotent stem cell-derived inner ear sensory neurons in Neurog1 +/? heterozygote mouse using blastocyst complementation. Additionally, this approach corrected non-sensory deficits associated with heterozygosity, indicating that complementation specific endogenous function. work validates use of as a tool create novel insight into functio...

Heterozygote disadvantage is potentially a potent driver of population genetic divergence. Also referred to as underdominance, this phenomena describes a situation where a genetic heterozygote has a lower overall fitness than either homozygote. Attention so far has mostly been given to underdominance within a single population and the maintenance of genetic differences between two populations e...

Twelve microsatellite loci of Leishmania braziliensis were examined, nine of which were developed in this work. Fifty-six Leishmania braziliensis were genotyped with these microsatellite loci. The 12 loci studied were polymorphic with the number of alleles ranging from five to 19, with a mean of 9.7 ± 4.1 and the observed heterozygosity averaging 0.425 ± 0.202. The important heterozygote defici...

The set of possible postselection genotype frequencies in an infinite, randomly mating population is found. Geometric mean heterozygote frequency divided by geometric mean homozygote frequency equals two times the geometric mean heterozygote fitness divided by geometric mean homozygote fitness. The ratio of genotype frequencies provides a measure of genetic variation that is independent of alle...

the objective of this study was to estimate the effective number of breeders in sarabi cattle population using heterozygote-excess method based on single nucleotide polymorphism markers. data consisted of 20 sarabi cows. snp genotyping was performed using illumina high-density bovine beadchip designed to genotype 777,962 snps. average observed heterozygosity, expected heterozygosity, minor alle...