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Fertilization

Definition
AI-generated

Fusion of gametes producing a zygote; resets diploidy and phase in unknown parental haplotypes.

Topics
Molecular biology
Related
Zygote Gamete Meiosis

Why it matters in GWAS

GWAS hits are interpreted through gene structure, regulation, and variant consequence; molecular vocabulary connects association statistics to mechanism.

Example usage

"The methods explicitly include Fertilization in the end-to-end analysis workflow."

Zygote Gamete Meiosis
Related-term network

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References

  • Griffiths AJF, et al. (2015). An Introduction to Genetic Analysis. W. H. Freeman.
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