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Detecting coevolution through allelic association between physically unlinked loci.
American journal of human genetics - 14 May 2010
Rohlfs Rori V, Swanson Willie J, Weir Bruce S
Abstract excerpt
Coevolving interacting genes undergo complementary mutations to maintain their interaction. Distinct combinations of alleles in coevolving genes interact differently, conferring varying degrees of fitness. If this fitness differential is adequately large, the resulting selection for allele matching could maintain allelic association, even between physically unlinked loci. Allelic association is often observed in...
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