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Why is high heterozygosity desirable for SNPs for individual identification?

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in Genetics

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Why is high heterozygosity desirable for SNPs for individual identification?

If heterozygosity is low for a given SNP loci, wouldn't it increase the discrimination power since less people would have heterozygous alleles for that loci?

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