Negative assortative mating

Negative assortative mating

A form of non-random mating in which individuals who are not genetically alike for particular traits mate and those who are alike do not. The result is a progressive increase in the frequency of heterozygotes and a decrease in the homozygotes for the discriminated traits. See positive assortative mating and random mating.

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