Shadow effect
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Shadow effect
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The shadow effect is a phenomenon seen in genetic studies that use noninvasive genetic data collection methods. It occurs when there are not enough loci and/or loci that have low variance of alleles within the population. As a result, researchers can capture two separate individuals and mistakenly label them as the same individual. This can create a negative bias in the data and portray a population as smaller and less genetically diverse than it is. This is most commonly seen in collection meth
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Phenomenon seen in genetic studies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_effect
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2023-08-13T02:40:37Z
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