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Soft selective sweep near a gene that increases plant height in wheat.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2008
Raquin A-L, Brabant P, Rhoné B, Balfourier F, Leroy P, Goldringer I
Abstract excerpt
Strong selection within a given population locally reduces genetic variability not only in the selected gene itself but also in neighbouring loci. This so-called hitch-hiking effect is related to the initial linkage disequilibrium between markers and the selected gene, and depends mainly on the number of copies of the beneficial allele at the start of the selection phase. Contrary to the classical case, in which...
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