outbreak
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In endogamous populations, such variants can occur 100 to 1,000 times as often as in more outbred populations, shortening the time and cost required to find them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Working sled dogs are typically outbred, or produced by pairing parent dogs that are genetically unlike, for speed and endurance.
From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2023
The “lack of any reliable evidence of mitochondrial–nuclear interaction as a cause of disease in human outbred populations”, they wrote, “provides the necessary reassurance to proceed”.
From Nature • Sep. 22, 2015
“Bulldogs could be as outbred as mongrel dogs in the streets of Calcutta, but if they keep that phenotype, they are not going very far.”
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2011
In areas where there were only hunter-gatherers to begin with, those groups of hunter-gatherers who adopted food production outbred those who didn’t.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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