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The nuclear/mitochondrial mismatch theory is interesting. Communities with a long history of admixture often have a significant number of individuals with mitoc
by marchenko 10y ago
The nuclear/mitochondrial mismatch theory is interesting. Communities with a long history of admixture often have a significant number of individuals with mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA of divergent geographic origins, but I have not seen it observed that they are subject to any deleterious mtDNA/nucDNA 'mismatch' effects. I wonder what the threshold for this effect is.
- jcoffland 10y agoHow would you know which defects in a population were thus caused?
- a_bonobo 10y agoMaybe survivor bias? An embryo without mitochondrial/nuclear genes matching up may not survive long enough for a pregnancy to be visible
- marchenko 10y agoThis is probably the he case https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614761/#s4title https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614761/#s4titl...