founder effect

English

Noun

founder effect (plural founder effects)

1. (genetics, evolutionary theory) A reduction in genetic diversity resulting when a population is descended from a small number of colonising ancestors.
   • 2006 November 20, Judy Pasternak, “Oases in Navajo Desert Contained 'A Witch's Brew'”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1]:

     The view that Navajo neuropathy was purely inherited continued to have its adherents. It did seem logical. There were multiple cases within families. The syndrome had appeared suddenly, the way a “founder effect” disease might.

Translations

lessening of genetic variation when the entire population descends from a small number of founders

• Arabic: تَأْثِير المُؤَسِّس m (taʔṯīr al-muʔassis), تَأْثِير المُؤَسَّسَة m (taʔṯīr al-muʔassasa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奠基者效應／奠基者效应 (diànjīzhěxiàoyìng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: perustajavaikutus
• French: effet fondateur m
• German: Gründereffekt m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: efekt założyciela m
• Portuguese: efeito fundador m, efeito do fundador m
• Russian: эффе́кт основа́теля m (effékt osnovátelja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ефекат оснивача m

  Latin: efekat osnivača m

• Spanish: efecto fundador m
• Swedish: grundareffekt (sv) c

Further reading

• founder effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia