Relationships between intrapopulational and interpopulational genetic diversity in man.

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Relationships between intrapopulational and interpopulational genetic diversity in man.

Annals of human biology - 1 Jan 2000

Livshits G, Nei M

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The bottleneck effect (or extended period of reduced population size) is known to increase genetic distance (D) substantially, and this can be a serious factor that disturbs the phylogenetic relationships of populations inferred from genetic distance estimates. The bottleneck effect is also known...

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Ethnicity
Genetic Variation
Heterozygote
Humans
Phylogeny
Racial Groups

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