A gene discovery technique that looks at regions of the genome where individuals have the same alleles much more often than expected by chance, because their ancestors were blood relatives, is called



A) homozygosity mapping.

B) heterozygosity mapping.

C) the defective sibling pair approach.

D) empiric risk.


A) homozygosity mapping.

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a. dendritic cells. b. macrophages. c. lymphcytes. d. polymorphonuclear cells.

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