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The 11 pages that link to Genetic load, each with the reason it gives.

• Genetic driftRelated: Random frequency shifts can increase the contribution of deleterious alleles to this burden.

• Genetic diversityRelated: The frequency and effects of harmful variants influence population fitness.

• Inbreeding depressionRelated: Inbreeding can reveal part of a population’s genetic load by increasing harmful homozygotes.

• Conservation geneticsRelated: It helps explain how harmful variants affect threatened populations.

• Genetic rescueRelated: Incoming variation may reduce the load accumulated in small, isolated populations.

• InbreedingRelated: Inbreeding can expose recessive variants that contribute to genetic load.

• Genetic variationRelated: The effects of deleterious variants depend partly on their frequency and genetic background.

• Muller’s ratchetRelated: The ratchet raises the burden of harmful mutations carried by a population.

• Archaic human admixtureRelated: Some archaic variants were harmful and became depleted by natural selection.

• Hermann Joseph MullerRelated: Muller used mutation research to consider how harmful variants accumulate in populations.

• Lethal alleleRelated: Lethal alleles can reduce reproductive success when their harmful genotypes arise.