Hitchhiking and associative overdominance at a microsatellite locus.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040222

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Hitchhiking and associative overdominance at a microsatellite locus.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 May 1995

Slatkin M

Abstract excerpt

The possible effects of a selected locus on a closely linked microsatellite locus are discussed and analyzed in terms of coalescent theory and models of the mutation process. Background selection caused by recurrent deleterious mutations will reduce the variance of allele size at a microsatellite...

Topics

Alleles
Chromosome Mapping
DNA, Satellite
Genes, Dominant
Genetic Linkage
Genetic Variation
Models, Genetic
Mutation

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