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In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new. Discoveries of the american scientific someday you. Scientific american, april 1979, 1979, scientific american. Discovery of new genetic mutation in aortic disease allows. As moalem details in his new book inheritance, the study of rare.
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