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On the probability of loss of new mutations in the presence of linkage disequilibrium |
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| Authors: | Lev A. Zhivotovsky Marcus W. Feldman |
| Affiliation: | (1) Institute of General Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Gubkin St. 3, 117 809 GSP-1, B-333 Moscow, Russia;(2) Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 94305 Stanford, CA, USA |
| Abstract: | A new selectively neutral mutation occurs in a multilocus genetic background that has achieved a stable equilibrium at which there is a linkage disequilibrium. Perturbation techniques are applied to an extension of the branching process formulation of Fisher in order to address the question of extinction probabilities. We show that under appropriate conditions the probability of extinction of the new mutant is increased by the existence of linkage disequilibrium in the genetic background.Research supported in part by NIH grant GM 28016 |
| Keywords: | Hitchhiking Neutral gene Extinction probability Branching process |
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