Genetic 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)...
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Population genetics (redirect from Genetic migration)
breaks linkage disequilibrium, and the random phenomena of mutation and genetic drift. This makes it appropriate for comparison to population genomics data...
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Evolution (redirect from Genetic evolution)
occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics becoming more...
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Quantitative genetics (redirect from Genetic gain)
gamete-pools are sampled from a large "potential" gamete-pool is known as genetic drift, and is considered subsequently. While panmixia may not be widely extant...
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Population size (section Genetic drift)
with amount of genetic drift, and is the underlying cause of effects like population bottlenecks and the founder effect. Genetic drift is the major source...
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mechanisms, such as genetic drift, contribute to it, as well. Genetic variation can be identified at many levels. Identifying genetic variation is possible...
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Microevolution (section Genetic drift)
processes: mutation, selection (natural and artificial), gene flow and genetic drift. This change happens over a relatively short (in evolutionary terms)...
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of genetic drift. When an allele (variant of a gene) drifts to fixation, the other allele at the same locus is lost, resulting in a loss in genetic diversity...
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small, so it shows increased sensitivity to genetic drift, an increase in inbreeding, and relatively low genetic variation. In genetics, a founder mutation...
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Gene (redirect from Genetic transmission)
Genes evolve due to natural selection or survival of the fittest and genetic drift of the alleles. The term gene was introduced by Danish botanist, plant...
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at the molecular level. While genotypes can slowly change by random genetic drift, natural selection remains the primary explanation for adaptive evolution...
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allele frequencies also produces genetic differentiation between populations. This process is known as genetic drift. By examining the differences between...
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Y chromosome (section Genetic drift)
evolutionary forces: high mutation rate, inefficient selection, and genetic drift. With a 30% difference between humans and chimpanzees, the Y chromosome...
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background selection. Both genetic hitchhiking and background selection are stochastic (random) evolutionary forces, like genetic drift. The term hitchhiking...
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Human variability (section Genetic drift)
human genetic variation". Pharmacogenomics. 7 (7): 969–72. doi:10.2217/14622416.7.7.969. PMID 17054407. "random genetic drift / genetic drift | Learn...
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Antigenic drift is a kind of genetic variation in viruses, arising from the accumulation of mutations in the virus genes that code for virus-surface proteins...
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population and its genetic variability are, the more likely the recessive/hidden deleterious mutations will show up causing genetic drift. DNA damages are...
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Waxy corn (section Genetic drift)
genetic drift – changes in gene frequencies resulting from the creation of small breeding populations.[citation needed] A striking example of genetic...
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Habitat fragmentation (section Genetic drift)
susceptible to genetic drift. Genetic drift is random changes to the genetic makeup of populations and leads to reductions in genetic diversity. The smaller...
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Polynesians (redirect from Genetic studies on Polynesians)
The high frequencies of mtDNA B4 in Polynesians are the result of genetic drift and represent the descendants of a few Austronesian females who mixed...
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neither harm nor benefit, but can also be beneficial sometimes. Genetic drift: Genetic drift is a variational process, it happens as a result of the sampling...
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survival. The interrelationship of genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection determines the level and dispersion of genetic differences between populations...
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Molecular evolution (section Genetic drift)
combination of natural selection, genetic drift, and gene conversion. Mutations are permanent, transmissible changes to the genetic material (DNA or RNA) of a...
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Introduction to evolution (section Genetic drift)
damage or replication errors in organisms' DNA. As the genetic variation of a population drifts randomly over generations, natural selection gradually...
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Population bottleneck (redirect from Genetic bottleneck)
greatest genetic fitness, the frequency of the fitter genes within the gene pool is increased, while the pool itself is reduced. The genetic drift caused...
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acceleration Incremental changes: Drift (linguistics), a type of language change Genetic drift, change in allele frequency Drift (telecommunication), long-term...
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of genetic drift) may have had an important influence in neutral differences between populations. [citation needed] The second main cause of genetic variation...
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of inbreeding between members of populations as a result of random genetic drift, and along with Fisher he pioneered methods for computing the distribution...
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processes such as genetic drift, in similarly to other European populations such as the Basques, Sámi and Icelanders. The high genetic variability implies...
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Mutation (redirect from Genetic mutation)
of an individual. These can increase in frequency over time due to genetic drift. It is believed that the overwhelming majority of mutations have no...
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