Genetic Load
"Genetic Load" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The relative amount by which the average fitness of a POPULATION is lowered, due to the presence of GENES that decrease survival, compared to the GENOTYPE with maximum or optimal fitness. (From Rieger et al., Glossary of Genetics: Classical and Molecular, 5th ed)
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D040741
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.350
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Peterson ML, Kay KM. Mating system plasticity promotes persistence and adaptation of colonizing populations of hermaphroditic angiosperms. Am Nat. 2015 Jan; 185(1):28-43.