Founder effect is the substantial decline in genetic diversity caused by the formation of a small colony of individuals that are still isolated. Founder effect contribute to the genetic drift, which causes some genetic traits in the process of disappearing, or becoming more abundant. Human populations in many provision of sources of interest to the study of genes involved in the founder effect, not on a large scale as it was first discussed many of the concept of populations.This animal in 1952, when Ernst Meyer based on the earlier work of the theory by others to come up with the idea of the founder effect. Meyer showed how a small isolated population could begin to diverge from the largest population of the mother, and sometimes yield ultimately a unique type. Since then, others have been built largely on his work, and to conduct studies on the long-term isolated communities and the use of advanced tools for analyzing the genes of these organisms in the population.
