Genetic drift
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title:
Genetic drift
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Genetic drift, also known as random genetic drift, allelic drift or the Wright effect, is the change in the frequency of an existing gene variant (allele) in a population due to random chance. Genetic drift may cause gene variants to disappear completely and thereby reduce genetic variation. It can also cause initially rare alleles to become much more frequent and even fixed. When few copies of an allele exist, the effect of genetic drift is more notable, and when many copies exist, the effect i
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Concept in genetics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_drift
date created:
2002-08-15T08:11:22Z
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2024-08-30T13:39:38Z
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