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Genetic hitchhiking in spatially extended populations.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Aug 2013
Barton N H, Etheridge A M, Kelleher J, Véber A
Abstract excerpt
When a mutation with selective advantage s spreads through a panmictic population, it may cause two lineages at a linked locus to coalesce; the probability of coalescence is exp(-2rT), where T∼log(2Ns)/s is the time to fixation, N is the number of haploid individuals, and r is the recombination rate. Population structure delays fixation, and so weakens the effect of a selective sweep. However, favourable alleles...
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