Opportunity for natural selection among three endogamous subpopulations of Andhra Pradesh

From: Indian Journal of Human Genetics | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Rao, T Venkateswara; Veerraju, P; Lakshmi, N | Copyright information

Introduction

Selection is one of the important evolutionary factors, which brings about a change in the gene pool of a population. This change is brought about by differential fertility and differential mortality. Differential fertility and mortality are due to difference in genetic fitness of individuals which can be determined in terms of viable offspring produced by the individual.

Crow (1958)[1] devised the index of total selection which can be computed using the reproductiv...

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