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English
Etymology
Probably formed by the combination of hexa- + -some, after the earlier hexasomic (1922) and hexasomy (1939).
Noun
hexasome (plural hexasomes)
- Any one of six homologous chromosomes in an aneuploid complement.
- 2003, Jesper Q. Svejstrup, “Histones Face the FACT” in Science (New Series) CCCI, № 5,636 (22nd August 2003), page 1,053:
- FACT enables the displacement of the histone H2A/H2B dimer from the nucleosome octamer, leaving a “hexasome” on the DNA.