They reasoned that by taking an oocyte and eliminating the loci that are known to be inactivated in a haploid paternal genome they would create a maternal genome that imitates paternal features.

It comes in 4,500 pieces and, like any individual genome, it contains many rare alleles. GRCh37, in contrast, is a mosaic haploid genome derived from about 13 people. It still contains rare ...

Haploid gametes contain 23 single chromosomes. copies of the genetic information are made the cell divides twice to form four gametes, each with a single set of chromosomes (haploid) all gametes ...

Sex is regulated by males being haploid with only a single set of chromosomes ... and females were identical along almost the ...