Article
Linkage disequilibrium in a population undergoing periodic fragmentation and admixture.
Genes & genetic systems - 1 Jan 2012
Tachida Hidenori
Abstract excerpt
Glacial and interglacial cycles are considered to have caused the fragmentation and admixture of populations in many organisms. A simple model incorporating such periodic changes of the population structure is analysed in order to investigate the behaviour of neutral genetic variation at one and two loci. The equilibrium is reached very quickly in terms of cycles if the length of a cycle is long, as would be...
Topics
- Diploidy
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Loci
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Heterozygote
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Models, Genetic
- Population Density
