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Concepts of Genetics 11th Edition by William Klug,Michael Cummings,Charlotte Spencer,Michael Palladino

Edition 11ISBN: 9781292139456
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Concepts of Genetics 11th Edition by William Klug,Michael Cummings,Charlotte Spencer,Michael Palladino

Edition 11ISBN: 9781292139456
Exercise 31
A number of comparisons of nucleotide sequences among hom-inids and rodents indicate that inbreeding may have occurred more in hominid than in rodent ancestry. When an ancient population bottleneck leaving approximately 10,000 individuals occurred in humans, Knight (2005) and Bakewell (2007) both suggested that this event may have left early humans with a greater chance of genetic disease. Why would a population bottleneck influence the frequency of genetic disease?
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