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Everyone is heterozygous at many genetic loci. It means the gene you got from your mother is different from the gene you got from your father. Since you got one chromosome (one gene) from each parent, there's a reasonable chance you'l be heterozygous in genes where there are different genes in the population.

Depending on the gene, heterozygous can be an advantage - a "good" gene can overcome a "bad" gene.

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