The Founder Effect

In the founder effect, a few individuals (carrying genes that may or may not be typical of the whole population) leave the original population to establish a new one.

It is the effect of drift when a small number of individuals start a new population. By chance, allele frequencies of founders may not be the same as those in the original population. The effect is pronounced on isolated islands, for example.

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