Revisiting Dominance in Population Genetics.

Abstract excerpt

Dominance refers to the effect of a heterozygous genotype relative to that of the two homozygous genotypes. The degree of dominance of mutations for fitness can have a profound impact on how deleterious and beneficial mutations change in frequency over time as well as on the patterns of linked neutral genetic variation surrounding such selected alleles. Since dominance is such a fundamental concept, it has...

Topics

• Genetics, Population
• Models, Genetic
• Mutation
• Genetic Fitness
• Genes, Dominant
• Selection, Genetic
• Animals
• Humans
• Genotype