Stability and response of polygenic traits to stabilizing selection and mutation
De Vladar H, Barton NH. 2014. Stability and response of polygenic traits to stabilizing selection and mutation. Genetics. 197(2), 749–767.
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De Vladar, Harold;
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When polygenic traits are under stabilizing selection, many different combinations of alleles allow close adaptation to the optimum. If alleles have equal effects, all combinations that result in the same deviation from the optimum are equivalent. Furthermore, the genetic variance that is maintained by mutation-selection balance is 2μ/S per locus, where μ is the mutation rate and S the strength of stabilizing selection. In reality, alleles vary in their effects, making the fitness landscape asymmetric and complicating analysis of the equilibria. We show that that the resulting genetic variance depends on the fraction of alleles near fixation, which contribute by 2μ/S, and on the total mutational effects of alleles that are at intermediate frequency. The inpplayfi between stabilizing selection and mutation leads to a sharp transition: alleles with effects smaller than a threshold value of 2 remain polymorphic, whereas those with larger effects are fixed. The genetic load in equilibrium is less than for traits of equal effects, and the fitness equilibria are more similar. We find p the optimum is displaced, alleles with effects close to the threshold value sweep first, and their rate of increase is bounded by Long-term response leads in general to well-adapted traits, unlike the case of equal effects that often end up at a suboptimal fitness peak. However, the particular peaks to which the populations converge are extremely sensitive to the initial states and to the speed of the shift of the optimum trait value.
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2014-06-01
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Genetics
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Genetics Society of America
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197
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2
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749 - 767
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De Vladar H, Barton NH. Stability and response of polygenic traits to stabilizing selection and mutation. Genetics. 2014;197(2):749-767. doi:10.1534/genetics.113.159111
De Vladar, H., & Barton, N. H. (2014). Stability and response of polygenic traits to stabilizing selection and mutation. Genetics. Genetics Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.159111
De Vladar, Harold, and Nicholas H Barton. “Stability and Response of Polygenic Traits to Stabilizing Selection and Mutation.” Genetics. Genetics Society of America, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.159111.
H. De Vladar and N. H. Barton, “Stability and response of polygenic traits to stabilizing selection and mutation,” Genetics, vol. 197, no. 2. Genetics Society of America, pp. 749–767, 2014.
De Vladar H, Barton NH. 2014. Stability and response of polygenic traits to stabilizing selection and mutation. Genetics. 197(2), 749–767.
De Vladar, Harold, and Nicholas H. Barton. “Stability and Response of Polygenic Traits to Stabilizing Selection and Mutation.” Genetics, vol. 197, no. 2, Genetics Society of America, 2014, pp. 749–67, doi:10.1534/genetics.113.159111.
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