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Sten Wahlund

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Swedish geneticist and politician

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Sten Gösta William Wahlund was a Swedish statistician, race biologist and politician. He is best known for first identifying the Wahlund effect, that subpopulations with different allele frequencies cause reduced heterozygosity than what is expected from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

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Country
Sweden
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1901 to 1976 · aged 75
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