How genetic drift arises and its prevalence in mouse ... The best way to determine whether genetic background matters is to perform controlled, side-by-side experiments and compare.

After 5-10 generations of inbreeding, mouse colonies should be “refreshed”, to remove or prevent genetic drift accumulation in the colony. Several methods to refresh the genetic background may ...

The founder effect is an extreme example of "genetic drift." Genes occurring at a certain frequency in the larger population will occur at a different frequency -- more or less often -- in a ...

According to this hypothesis, most of the changes in DNA inside individuals are the result of "genetic drift" -- random changes that go on all the time and aren't steered by natural selection in ...

Much change is due to random genetic drift rather than positive selection. It could be called the survival of the luckiest. You might think that largely neutral mutations would remain restricted ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers developed and validated an approach for the joint inference of measurement noise and genetic drift by analyzing time-series ...