Home › Words › I › isodisomyisodisomyisodisomy · noun — the duplication of a single chromosome inherited from one parent.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom iso- + disomy.nounThe duplication of a single chromosome inherited from one parente.g.“Genome-wide SNP array of the family (the patient and her parents) showed complete maternal isodisomy of chromosome 12.” — 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, →DOI:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.dysomy 69% match — The inheritance of a pair of non-identical chromosomes vs isodisomy →heterodisomy 69% match — The inheritance of a pair of non-identical chromosomes from one parent vs isodisomy →isoduplication 65% match — The joining of two near-identical strands of a broken chromosome vs isodisomy →disomic 64% match — Having one or more chromosomes present twice, but without having the entire genome doubled vs isodisomy →dihaploid 62% match — Having two identical copies of each chromosome as a result of chromosome doubling vs isodisomy →disomy 61% match — The normal state of a diploid eukaryotic cell or individual which has two members of a pair of homologous chromosomes in each nucleus. A normal chromosome is represented twice in a single cell. vs isodisomy →homodiploid 58% match — Describing a chromosome consisting of two identical strands vs isodisomy →homozygotic 57% match — Originating from the same zygote vs isodisomy →