Sentences with phrase «whose isolated population»
The search for the gene began in Finland, whose isolated population has often been studied for its elevated rate of rare genetic diseases.
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The genetic data indicates that the Ashkenazi Jewish population was founded in the late medieval times by a small number, effectively only hundreds of individuals, whose descendants expanded rapidly while remaining mostly isolated genetically.
Dr. Beth Shapiro, whose work focuses on how populations of organisms respond to climate and habitat change over time, has isolated ancient DNA from a variety of Pleistocene and Holocene species.
However, dog breeds generally are characterized by closed breeding and relatively isolated populations, often with a small number of founders and popular sires whose gene pool is overrepresented in modern - day progeny.