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Genetics, Vol 147, 281-287, Copyright © 1997
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Mutation-Selection Balance Under Genomic Imprinting at an Autosomal Locus
H. G. Spencer
Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
I model the effect of genomic imprinting on the equilibrium allele frequencies at an autosomal diallelic locus subject to viability selection and mutation. The population size is assumed to be very large; male and female mutation rates may be unequal. Different models examine cases of the inactivation of one gene (with both complete and partial penetrance) and of differential expression of genes according to the parent of origin. In the simplest cases the frequency of the deleterious allele is approximately twice that of a dominant nonimprinting mutant, but considerably less than that of a recessive nonimprinting mutant. Under imprinting, selection and unequal mutation rates interact: other things being equal, male-biased mutation leads to lower mutant frequencies under maternal imprinting and higher frequencies under paternal imprinting. I also model cases where just one allele is imprintable (and the other not). These models allow us to predict the frequency of a failure to imprint in a normally imprinting system, as well as the frequency of imprinting at a standard nonimprinting locus.
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