• Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and among populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology....
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  • In population genetics, fixation is the change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele)...
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  • to cause the disease. For this reason, population structure is a common confounding variable in medical genetics studies, and accounting for and controlling...
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    context of a population. Genetics has given rise to a number of subfields, including molecular genetics, epigenetics and population genetics. Organisms...
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  • plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. The word population is derived from the Late Latin populationem (a people, a multitude)...
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  • The Population Genetics Group (or PopGroup, or PGG) is an annual meeting of population geneticists held in the UK since 1968. The meetings have been very...
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    prehistoric gene-flow from siberia in the complex human population history of North East Europe". PLOS Genetics. 9 (2): e1003296. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003296...
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    "The population genetics of a biological control introduction: mitochondrial DNA and microsatellie variation in native and introduced populations of Aphidus...
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  • in the sense of applying mathematical models to population genetics, community ecology, and population dynamics. Alan Hastings used the term in 1997 as...
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  • sub-disciplines and related fields, with an emphasis on classical genetics, quantitative genetics, population biology, phylogenetics, speciation, and systematics....
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  • field of population genetics in 1931 by the American geneticist Sewall Wright. Depending on the quantity of interest, effective population size can be...
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  • Reproductive value is a concept in demography and population genetics that represents the discounted number of future female children that will be born...
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  • Isles is the subject of research within the larger field of human population genetics. It has developed in parallel with DNA testing technologies capable...
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  • Genetic studies of Jews are part of the population genetics discipline and are used to analyze the chronology of Jewish migration accompanied by research...
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  • In population genetics and population ecology, population size (usually denoted N) is a countable quantity representing the number of individual organisms...
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    Conservation genetics is an interdisciplinary subfield of population genetics that aims to understand the dynamics of genes in a population for the purpose...
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    classical genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, biochemical genetics, genomics, population genetics, developmental genetics, clinical genetics, and genetic...
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  • Ecological genetics is the study of genetics in natural populations. It combines ecology, evolution, and genetics to understand the processes behind adaptation...
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  • Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia is the study of the genetics and archaeogenetics of the ethnic groups of South Asia. It aims at uncovering...
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    evolution onto a mathematical footing and forming the basis for population genetics within the modern evolutionary synthesis. The principles of Mendelian...
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  • Introgression Population groups in biomedicine Korunes, Katharine L.; Goldberg, Amy (2021-03-11). "Human genetic admixture". PLOS Genetics. 17 (3). Public...
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  • studies of large populations and genetic clusters, and studies of genetic risk factors for disease. Research into race and genetics has also been criticized...
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    genetics is the branch of medicine that involves the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders. Medical genetics differs from human genetics in...
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    PMC 2679939. PMID 19364710. Loewe, Laurence; Hill, William G. (2010). "The population genetics of mutations: good, bad, and indifferent". Philosophical Transactions...
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  • Patterson, N (2012). "Ancient admixture in human history". Genetics. 192 (3): 1065–93. doi:10.1534/genetics.112.145037. PMC 3522152. PMID 22960212. Raghavan, M...
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    Molecular genetics is a branch of biology that addresses how differences in the structures or expression of DNA molecules manifests as variation among...
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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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    experimental work, mathematicians developed the statistical framework of population genetics, bringing genetic explanations into the study of evolution. With...
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  • population genetics an idealised population is one that can be described using a number of simplifying assumptions. Models of idealised populations are...
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    001341. Loewe, Laurence; Hill, William G. (27 April 2010). "The population genetics of mutations: good, bad and indifferent". Philosophical Transactions...
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