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THE EFFECTS OF OVERDOMINANCE ON LINKAGE IN A MULTILOCUS SYSTEM
Tsuneyuki Yamazaki 1
1 National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, 411 Japan and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Computer simulations were performed with overdominant multiple alleles among tightly linked multiple loci under a multiplicative fitness model. The quantity X2/N(n — 1) was introduced as a new measure of linkage disequilibrium which, unlike previously available measures, can be applied to multiple allele models, where N is the sample size, and n is the number of alleles at the locus possessing fewest alleles. Simulations showed that (1) With multiple (three or four) alleles, the approach to stable disequilibrium is slower and the amount of disequilibrium established is weaker than in a two allele system. (2) The number of complementary chromosomes is a function of number of alleles and of population size. (3) As population size increases, the rate of the approach to stable disequilibrium is slower. (4) There is an optimum selection coefficient which minimizes the transient fixation probability of alleles when linkage is present. (5) The absence of linkage disequilibrium is in most cases not a practical method of testing the hypothesis of balancing selection of genetic polymorphisms because it depends strongly on population size in determining linkage disequilibria.
Submitted on December 8, 1975Revised on November 29, 1976
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