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    In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of...
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  • isolated from gene flow. One possible cause of genetic divergence is the founder effect, which is when a few individuals become isolated from their original...
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  • drift, also known as random genetic drift, allelic drift or the Wright effect, is the change in the frequency of an existing gene variant (allele) in...
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  • laminitis Founder effect, genetic effect of expansion of isolated small populations Founder (IRC), management status for Internet Relay Chat To founder (or...
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    generations. One example of the founder effect is found in the Amish migration to Pennsylvania in 1744. Two of the founders of the colony in Pennsylvania...
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  • the underlying cause of effects like population bottlenecks and the founder effect. Genetic drift is the major source of decrease of genetic diversity...
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  • brochures referenced above. Preface: The founder effect disease causing mutations where "The founder effect refers to the concept that a given gene appeared...
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  • of these communities. The study also found evidence of the historic founder effect of Ashkenazi Jewry, with a third of the individuals sampled found to...
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  • subsequent generations designated F2 and so on. Related concepts include: Founder effect - the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is...
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  • population experienced a founder effect and genetic drift due to the small number of ancestors. As a result of the founder effect, Polynesians are distinctively...
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    gene flow, meiotic drive, genetic hitchhiking, population bottleneck, founder effect, inbreeding and outbreeding depression. In the simplest case of a single...
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    generations through a phenomenon known as the founder effect. Diseases attributed to the popular sire effect include copper toxicosis in Bedlington Terriers...
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    to date have been inherited, suggesting the possibility of a large "founder" effect in which a certain mutation is common to a well-defined population...
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  • (psychological theories) Founder effect (ecology) (population genetics) Fractional quantum Hall effect (physics) Franssen effect (acoustics) (sound perception)...
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    1982. It is related to the founder effect, where small living populations may undergo selection bottlenecks. The founder effect is based on models that suggest...
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    population, all individuals can have this trait. This is called the founder effect. In the well established breeds, that are commonly bred, a large gene...
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  • drift, founder effect, bottleneck, genetic hitchhiking, meiotic drive, mutation, gene flow, inbreeding, natural selection, or the Wahlund effect, but it...
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  • and reaches its maximum frequency in the Dinaric Alps (Balkans) via founder effect, related to the migrations of the Early Slavs to the Balkan peninsula...
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    Indian Ocean and those in the Pacific Ocean. The coconut experienced a founder effect, where a small number of individuals with low diversity founded the...
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    may underestimate actual rates of dispersal and invasion potential. Founder effect Peripatric speciation Genetic drift Genetic drift in a population at...
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    to date have been inherited, suggesting the possibility of a large "founder" effect in which a certain mutation is common to a well-defined population...
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    larger than previously thought. The Polynesian population experienced a founder effect and genetic drift. The Polynesian may be distinctively different both...
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  • sense in the field of genetics; for example in the bottleneck effect or founder effect, when natural disasters or migrations dramatically reduce the size...
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    to low genetic diversity within this group, suggesting a founder effect. This founder effect may be linked to the Chandel community, whose oral traditions...
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    from the founder effect. Among notable contemporary Lithuanian Jews are: Mendele Mocher Sforim, was a Jewish author and one of the founders of modern...
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    dark-eyed junco on the mainland due to its small population size and the founder effect. Adult dark-eyed juncos generally have gray heads, necks, and breasts...
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  • species. Evolutionary biology portal Biodiversity Conservation biology Founder effect Gene flow Genetic drift Small population size Australian Grains Genebank...
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  • Mass Effect is a military science fiction media franchise created by Casey Hudson. The franchise depicts a distant future where humanity and several alien...
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    possibly even increase the incidence of autosomal recessive disease. Founder effect. This hypothesis states that the high incidence of the 1278insTATC chromosomes...
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  • Tao; Hui Li (2012). "Comment on "Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa"". Science. 335 (6069): 657...
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