Open AccessTHE EFFECT OF LINKAGE ON THE MEAN VALUE OF INBREDS DERIVED FROM A RANDOM MATING POPULATION
Author(s) -
Izak Mauritz Rohm van Aarde
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792
H-Index - 246
eISSN - 1943-2631
pISSN - 0016-6731
DOI - 10.1093/genetics/78.4.1245
Subject(s) - biology , inbreeding depression , linkage (software) , inbreeding , genetics , population , mating , ploidy , genetic linkage , evolutionary biology , value (mathematics) , statistics , demography , mathematics , gene , sociology
An expression is derived which accounts for the effect of linkage on the mean value of diploid inbreds. The original population is taken to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. It is shown that linkage will accelerate inbreeding depression. The precise nature of the acceleration is worked out for some special cases.
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