Sentences with phrase «relatively homogeneous population»

«We found that the relatively homogeneous population seen across western Eurasia today, including Europe and the Near East, used to be a highly substructured collection of people who were as different from one another as present - day Europeans are from East Asians,» said David Reich, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and co-senior author of the study.

«It is exciting and striking how a relatively homogeneous population sweeps across large parts of Europe between 33,000 and 26,000 years ago, displacing the populations that were there before,» says Reich.

Not exact matches

In the first scenario, the virus can multiply rapidly, creating a population that «is relatively homogeneous» over the course of days or weeks.

«This was a sufficient number because the population here is relatively homogeneous.»

Researchers have traditionally thought of Cahokia as a relatively homogeneous and stable population drawn from the immediate area, he said.

Notably, the West African cohort has been useful for refining the association signals found in European and Asian ancestry populations; it has provided some of the earliest evidence for how relatively diverse populations might facilitate fine - mapping of loci originally identified in more homogeneous populations characterized by larger regions of strong linkage disequilibrium.

However, a more likely explanation may be that our population was relatively homogeneous in behavior and, therefore, we were unable to detect an effect.