The effect of background selection against deleterious mutations on weakly selected, linked variants.

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This paper analyses the effects of selection against deleterious alleles maintained by mutation ('background selection') on rates of evolution and levels of genetic diversity at weakly selected, completely linked, loci. General formulae are derived for the expected rates of gene substitution and genetic diversity, relative to the neutral case, as a function of selection and dominance coefficients at the loci in...

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