Genetic Variation: Harmful Recessive Mutations Have Unexpected Effects on Variation.

Curr Biol

School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK. Electronic address:

Published: January 2020

New data are causing the standard model for the effect of selection on linked neutral variation in low recombination regions, combining the effects of background selection and selective sweeps, to be refined to include harmful recessive mutations creating associative overdominance.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.040DOI Listing

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