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High rates of Huntington's disease among Afrikaners in South Africa illustrate the:

ABottleneck effect
BGene flow effect
CMutation rate
DFounder effect
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Founder effect
1. Many founding colonists carried the mutation. 2. This is the founder effect. 3. Fanconi anemia is another example. _Source: OpenStax Biology 2e, Chapter 19, The Evolution of Populations (CC BY 4.0)._
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