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North-Pea-4926 t1_ja8pz1x wrote

I can’t find examples of particular diseases, but there are situations where heterozygous individuals have lower fitness than homozygous individuals. Try searching for disruptive selection or underdominance. Or causes for low hybrid fitness.

In plants there is “hybrid necrosis” as a result of incompatible immune systems. Mammals have “hybrid sterility”.

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