• 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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  • examine such phenomena as adaptation, speciation, and population structure. Population genetics was a vital ingredient in the emergence of the modern...
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  • Population structure may refer to many aspectsof population ecology: Population structure (genetics), also called population stratification Population...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. The word population is derived from the Late Latin populatio (a people, a multitude)...
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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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    "The population genetics of a biological control introduction: mitochondrial DNA and microsatellie variation in native and introduced populations of Aphidus...
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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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    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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  • introduced in the field of population genetics in 1931 by the American geneticist Sewall Wright. Some versions of the effective population size are used in wildlife...
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  • In quantitative genetics, QST is a statistic intended to measure the degree of genetic differentiation among populations with regard to a quantitative...
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  • studies of Jews are part of the population genetics discipline and are used to analyze the ancestry of Jewish populations, complementing research in other...
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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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    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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  • topical guide to genetics: Genetics – science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. Genetics deals with the molecular structure and function...
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  • several groups in the early 1980s as a natural extension of classical population genetics theory and models,[1][2][3][4] but can be primarily attributed to...
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  • chromosome variation in Ashkenazi Jewish and host non-Jewish European populations". Human Genetics. 114 (4): 354–65. doi:10.1007/s00439-003-1073-7. PMID 14740294...
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    In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the...
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    (2010). "Genetics and Genomics of Human Population Structure". In Speicher MR, Antonarakis SE, Motulsky AG (eds.). Vogel and Motulsky's Human Genetics: Problems...
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  • Panmixia (category Population genetics)
    the gamete population (gamodeme). This assumes that there are no hybridising restrictions within the parental population: neither genetics, cytogenetics...
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  • F-statistics (category Population genetics)
    In population genetics, F-statistics (also known as fixation indices) describe the statistically expected level of heterozygosity in a population; more...
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    Landscape genetics is the scientific discipline that combines population genetics and landscape ecology. It broadly encompasses any study that analyses...
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    Fixation index (category Population genetics)
    F-statistics, it is one of the most commonly used statistics in population genetics. Its values range from 0 to 1, with 0 being no differentiation and...
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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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    (1983-07-01). "46,XX/46,XY chimerism in a phenotypically normal man". Human Genetics. 64 (1): 86–89. doi:10.1007/BF00289485. ISSN 1432-1203. PMID 6575956. S2CID 25946104...
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  • Allele frequency (category Population genetics)
    allele frequencies can be calculated from genotype frequencies. In population genetics, allele frequencies are used to describe the amount of variation...
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  • used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation...
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