Consequences of Assortative Mating in Humans
Assortative mating refers to whereby individuals having same genotype mate with each other to produce offsprings’. This changes the genotypic and allelic frequencies in a given population. It is sometimes due to the frequent intra-sexual competition within a population. There are several consequence of assortative mating. It results to homozygosity increase due to phase disequilibrium of gametes. Therefore, the gametes will have no differences. Another consequence is that the variance of the total population will also increase. Genetic effects in a given population are greatly influenced by the assortative mating degree. In a population where assortative mating has occurred, ...
