Associative overdominance, heterozygosity and fitness.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2540.1998.00395.x

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Associative overdominance, heterozygosity and fitness.

Heredity - 1 Oct 1998

Pamilo P, Pálsson S

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Our aim in this study was to examine the power of associative overdominance in creating a correlation between individual heterozygosity and fitness and in maintaining genetic polymorphism at neutral loci. This was undertaken by simulating a diploid model with five chromosomes, each with 1000 loci...

Topics

Computer Simulation
Genes, Dominant
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Heterozygote
Models, Genetic

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