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The statistical mechanics of a polygenic character under stabilizing selection, mutation and drift.

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface - 6 May 2011

de Vladar Harold P, Barton Nick H

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By exploiting an analogy between population genetics and statistical mechanics, we study the evolution of a polygenic trait under stabilizing selection, mutation and genetic drift. This requires us to track only four macroscopic variables, instead of the distribution of all the allele frequencies that influence the trait. These macroscopic variables are the expectations of: the trait mean and its square, the...

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PMID: 21084341
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0438
PMCID: PMC3061091

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