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For anyone else reading and wondering what the founder effect is: > In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs whe
by brigandish 7y ago
For anyone else reading and wondering what the founder effect is:
> 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 individuals from a larger population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder_effect
- franciscop 7y agoYes, I searched the exact same thing. For how clear the article was in general, I was surprised that this bit was surprisingly confusing in the way it was explained.
- roosterdawn 7y agoDid anyone else read this and, experiences colored by startups, immediately begin thinking about an analogous effect in startup organizational developmental dynamics? Anyways, to be more on topic, I read this quote from the article: "Because of the founder effect, showing that a particular mutation increases viral transmission in humans is very difficult." Does the author here mean that it is hard to determine whether a mutation increases viral transmission in humans or not because that mutation's survival may not necessarily be the result of genetic fitness but founder effect?