Genetic purging
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title:
Genetic purging
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Genetic purging is the increased pressure of natural selection against deleterious alleles prompted by inbreeding. Purging occurs because deleterious alleles tend to be recessive, which means that they only express all their harmful effects when they are present in the two copies of the individual. During inbreeding, as related individuals mate, they produce offspring that are more likely to be homozygous so that deleterious alleles express all their harmful effects more often, making individual
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Reduction in frequency of deleterious alleles through inbreeding
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_purging
date created:
2013-07-22T16:11:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T14:38:45Z
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