Homozygous (hoh-moh-ZY-gus), as related to genetics, refers to having inherited the same versions (alleles) of a genomic marker from each biological parent. Thus, an individual who is homozygous for a genomic marker has two identical versions of that marker. By contrast, an individual who is heterozygous has two different versions. In CMT, a recessive subtype is homozygous, meaning two copies of the mutated gene, one from each parent, are needed to cause the disease.
When Medicine Lost Its Compass
Evidence failed not because it was wrong, but because it was weaponized. I lived the downstream effects of that failure for more than a decade. This is what happens when medicine forgets that data always ends in a human being.
