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The rate of selection advance for non-additive loci

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

W. G. Hill
W. G. Hill
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Institute of Animal GeneticsWest Mains Road, Edinburgh, 9
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Expected changes in the gene frequency and the population mean for a quantitative trait are described for selection in a population of size N at a single locus where the favoured allele has initial frequency q0 and selective value s. Models of additive and completely dominant gene action are compared. Results are generally expressed as the half-life of the total change relative to N.

If the favoured allele is additive or recessive the half-life of the gene frequency and mean of the trait are usually reduced when q0 or Ns is increased. However, if the dominant allele is favoured the half-life of gene frequency is still generally reduced as Ns is increased, but has a minimum at low or intermediate values of q0. Since inbreeding depression and selection oppose each other when the dominant allele is favoured the response in the mean of the quantitative trait may change in direction during selection.

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Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 1969 , pp. 165 - 173
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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