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The effect of selection on genetic variability: a simulation study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

M. G. Bulmer
M. G. Bulmer
Affiliation:
Department of Biomathematics, Pusey Street, Oxford
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Computer simulations have been done to study the effects of stabilizing and disruptive selection on a polygenic character. The results are reported in terms of three components of genetic variability which represent changes in gene frequencies, departures from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium and linkage disequilibrium respectively. Under random mating the first and third components are the most important. The observed changes in gene frequencies are interpreted in the light of previous theoretical work on the stability of equilibria under selection. In addition, large and rapid changes in the genotypic variance result from the generation of linkage disequilibrium under selection; the observed changes are in good agreement with those predicted on theoretical grounds.

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Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , October 1976 , pp. 101 - 117
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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