The
ability
to
identify
founder
mutations
has
profound
implications
for
the
practice
of
medicine
.
Knowledge
of
such
mutations
can
,
for
instance
,
help
physicians
identify
patients
who
should
be
tested
for
certain
diseases
.
Currently
physicians
may
rely
on
testing
individual
?
s
ethnicity
to
assign
some
diseases
risks
and
perform
further
tests
.
For
example
,
most
sickle
____________________
disease
occurs
in
those
of
African
____________________
.
But
as
the
world
?
s
peoples
become
more
genetically
____________________
,
it
will
become
increasingly
difficult
to
____________________
an
ancestral
geographic
origin
or
specific
____________________
to
any
person
.
With
ethnic
background
disappearing
as
a
____________________
clue
,
physicians
will
therefore
rely
on
testing
individuals
?
DNA
more
as
they
try
to
____________________
disease
risks
or
the
cause
of
patients
?
symptoms
.
And
finding
founder
____________________
now
,
while
human
populations
remain
genetically
____________________
,
will
help
identify
the
specific
genes
responsible
for
numerous
____________________
.
