desvio da casualidade

English translation: chance deviation

20:31 Apr 21, 2012
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Genealogy
Portuguese term or phrase: desvio da casualidade
A sigla representa o coeficiente médio de consanguinidade, enquanto a letra F expressa o desvio da casualidade obtida nos acasalamentos atuais.
Andre Damasceno
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English translation:chance deviation
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Martin Riordan
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4chance deviation
Martin Riordan
4genetic drift
Sheryle Oliver
4fixation index
judith ryan


  

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chance deviation


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Example sentence(s):
  • Was the coin you flipped not a fair coin (or was the meiotic segregation not random) or was the deviation simply within the scope of chance deviation?

    Reference: http://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/edevlin/edsweb01/courses...
Martin Riordan
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genetic drift


Explanation:
Genetic drift - /In small populations, chance events produce outcomes that differ from theoretical predictions./

/Genetic drift is a change in gene frequency that is the result of chance deviation from expected genotypic frequencies./

OBS: Chance is involved, but as the means, not the end.

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-04-21 22:05:47 GMT)
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PS: I chose these examples because both marriage and random mating affect ancestral lines (ie genetics).


    Reference: http://www.faculty.buffalostate.edu/penaloj/bio405/outline6....
    Reference: http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc431/popgen/popgen3.h...
Sheryle Oliver
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fixation index


Explanation:
Fixation statistics developed by Wright, see ref.


    Reference: http://www.genetics.org/content/148/3/1325.full.pdf
judith ryan
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