Founder mutations and rare disease in the Arab world.

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Founder mutations are disease-causing variants that occur frequently in geographically or culturally isolated groups whose shared ancestor(s) carried the pathogenic variant. While some disease alleles may vanish from the genetic pool due to natural selection, variants with weaker effects may survive for a long time, thereby enhancing the prevalence of some rare diseases. These are predominantly autosomal...

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