Familial hypercholesterolemia, an autosomal dominant disease, is five times more frequent in the Afrikaner population of South Africa than in the original population of Europe from which the ancestors to the Afrikaners immigrated. What does this demonstrate? anthro

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Familial hypercholesterolemia, an autosomal dominant disease, is five times more frequent in the Afrikaner population of South Africa than in the original population of Europe from which the ancestors to the Afrikaners immigrated. What does this demonstrate? anthro

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Answer:Founder Effect

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Founder Effect Definition

This is a phenomena that refers to when a larger group which has been in one location splits apart into smaller groups as they move to different locations.

Irrespective of the traits acquired from the original large population, the newly formed small population will only take traits or resemblance from the founders of the smaller groups rather than from the original ancestors.

As the population get smaller so are the chances of losing all the traits from the original larger population.

This means as the population splits into smaller groups and locating into other areas they will eventually be genetically different from their original population from which they came from.

There is a chance of new species forming with totally different genes.

hence the South African Afrikaners do not resemble their original population anymore as a result of the founder effect.