• Genetic purging is the increased pressure of natural selection against deleterious alleles prompted by inbreeding. Purging occurs because deleterious alleles...
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  • to induce vomiting. Genetic purging, the enhancement of selection against deleterious alleles that is prompted by inbreeding Purging (gas), a fire and explosion...
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  • selection can be split into purging by non-random mating (assortative mating) and purging by genetic drift. Purging by genetic drift can remove primarily...
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  • enhanced as a consequence of the bottleneck, due to genetic purging. This leads to a further loss of genetic diversity. In addition, a sustained reduction in...
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    reproduction Exogamy Founder effect F-statistics Fritzl case Genetic diversity Genetic purging Genetic sexual attraction Heterozygote advantage Identical ancestors...
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    bulimia, is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging or fasting, and excessive concern with body shape and weight. This activity...
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  • current diagnostic systems, purging disorder is a form of other specified feeding or eating disorder. Research indicates that purging disorder, while not rare...
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  • increased homozygosity. However, inbreeding also gives opportunity for genetic purging of deleterious alleles that otherwise would continue to exist in population...
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  • effect that is unmasked in the homozygotes and the importance of genetic drift, so that purging is weaker for non-lethal than for recessive lethal alleles....
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  • as purging itself. Purges can be either nonviolent or violent, with the former often resolved by the simple removal of those who have been purged from...
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  • are expected to have lower genetic loads. This is one hypothesis for the evolutionary advantage of sexual reproduction. Purging of deleterious mutations...
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    mild inbreeding, lethal recessives have been removed from the herd by genetic purging. A classic example reports how of 20 lines of lab mice subjected to...
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    size, exhibiting inbreeding avoidance. Bluebuck genomes evinced high genetic purging, and even seemed unaffected by glacial cycles and changes in habitat...
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    Eugenics (redirect from Genetic cleansing)
    being, growing') is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted...
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    can be scrubbed by natural selection from inbred populations through genetic purging. As homozygosity increases, less fit individuals will be selected against...
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  • is central to some theories of the purging of mutation load and to the evolution of sexual reproduction. The genetic process of mutation takes place within...
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  • Garcia-Dorado, Aurora (December 2016). "Understanding Inbreeding Depression, Purging, and Genetic Rescue". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31 (12): 940–952. doi:10...
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  • Genetic hitchhiking, also called genetic draft or the hitchhiking effect, is when an allele changes frequency not because it itself is under natural selection...
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    mesolithic central European sites. The existence of an especially strong genetic association between the Irish and the Basques was first challenged in 2005...
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  • Genetic discrimination occurs when people treat others (or are treated) differently because they have or are perceived to have a gene mutation(s) that...
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    mutations and altering the cell's genetic identity and genome size. Transposition often results in duplication of the same genetic material. In the human genome...
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    Library. Retrieved 11 July 2014. Carr, Matthew (2009). Blood and faith: the purging of Muslim Spain. The New Press. p. 290. ISBN 978-1-59558-361-1. Singh,...
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  • ancestry). Based on the genetic makeup of ancient and modern Central Asian populations, it was found that Yaghnobis and Tajiks show genetic continuity to ancient...
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    analyzed demonstrating a bio-genetic affinity and continuity shared between both groups. There is also a direct genetic link between ancient Greeks and...
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    and Malay adat are carried out in Syariah Court. There is considerable genetic, linguistic, cultural, and social diversity among the many Malay subgroups...
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    to eat around others, and hiding or discarding of food. Purging (only in the anorexia purging subtype) with laxatives, diet pills, ipecac syrup or diuretics...
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    Xinjiang Uyghurs are more genetically related to Chinese population in genetics than to Caucasians. Moreover, there was genetic diversity between Uyghurs...
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    they are genetically closest to the Koreans, followed by Northern Han, Japanese and Southern Han, in that order, according to FST genetic distance measurements...
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  • of power. In the mid-1980s, Moscow attempted to regain control by again purging the entire Uzbek party leadership. However, this move increased Uzbek nationalism [ru]...
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  • Sippenhaft (category Genetic fallacies)
    Sippenhaft or Sippenhaftung (German: [ˈzɪpənˌhaft(ʊŋ)], kin liability) is a German term for the idea that a family or clan shares the responsibility for...
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