Nichols' Lectures Flashcards
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Wahlund effect
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- reduction in heterozygosity in a population due to subpopulation structure
- excess of homozygotes/deficit in heterozygotes in a sample of individuals from a structured population, even when the populations are randomly mating
- consequence: creation of allelic association or linkage disequilibrium between different loci in the total sample of individuals
