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For example, the uniparental (maternal) mode of inheritance of both mitochondria and insect endosymbionts may reflect host defense against invasion by foreign microbes with strong deleterious effects, which spread more easily under biparental inheritance (Law and Hutson 1992).
A nuclear gene that enforces uniparental inheritance of organelles, along with a label that allows such cells to recognize each other so that their nuclear genes can share the benefits of cytoplasmic policing, should be favored.
Loss of heterozygosity in cancer can occur either because of chromosomal deletion or somatic recombination resulting in uniparental disomy [ 37 ] . Comparative genomic hybridization studies in head and neck cancer [ 10 38 ] demonstrate that 6q deletion frequency (> 50%) is similar to that which we observed at the M6P/IGF2R locus.
There are species where the uniparental inheritance of organelles is not so strictly enforced, says Hoekstra, such as yeasts and plants.