Non-equivalent loci and mutation-selection balance.

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We consider the implications of mutationally non-equivalent loci for large populations of randomly mating diploid organisms under mutation-selection balance. Variation, across loci, of parameters such as the allelic mutational variance and the mutation rate, is shown to reduce the equilibrium genetic variance. This is proved to follow from the genetic variance contributed by a single locus having an underlying...

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