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Linkage disequilibrium VS Linkage equilibrium
Disequilibrium = nonrandom association between alleles at two or more loci

Expected frequencies differ from observed frequencies


Equilibrium = random association between alleles at two or more loci

expected frequencies = observed frequencies

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How to estimate the haplotype frequencies at linkage equilibrium:
multiply the frequencies of the alleles
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What is linkage disequilibrium important?

A.K.A what are the potential maladaptive results of linkage disequilibrium?

1. "associative overdominance" 

2. "background selection"

3. Genetic hitchhiking

4. selective sweep

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What reduces linkage disequilibrium?
Recombination mixes alleles among haplotypes (linkage declines with time)
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What is 'broad sense heritability'?
proportion of phenotypic variation that is due to individual genetic variation:


Hb = Vg/Vp

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Stuff that causes linkage disequilibrium in random-mating population:
1. selection on multilocus genotype


2. genetic drift

3. population admixture


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What assumptions are under the H-W theorem?
frequencies stay the same!


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selection

mutation

migration

infinite population size

random mating


^^ chromosome frequencies only stay the same under linkage equilibrium (if in disequilibrium, chromosome frequencies go closer to equilibrium during each generation)

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Describe associative overdominance.

- apparent heterozygote advantage due to negative selection at linked loci (if having Ab/aB is selected for, even though individually a and b are deleterious, it's hard to eliminate deleterious alleles)

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What is quantitative genetics?
study of the evolutionary properties of traits under polygenic inheritance (continuous, meristic or threshold)
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Vg = Va + Vd + Vl describe the variables
Va = variation due to effects of alleles independent of effects of other alleles 


Vd = variation due to dominance effects at a locus

Vi = variation due to interactions among loci

Vd + Vi => deviations from correlation btwn parent + offspring

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Conditions if in equilibrium:
1. B on A = B on a

2. frequency of an haplotype (AB) = A X B (frequencies of alleles)

3. D (coefficient of disequilibrium) = 0 (since D = Frequencies of AB X ab - frequencies of aB X Ab)


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how many haplotypes when:

2 alleles at 2 loci


and how many geno from the # of haplo?

4 haplo


10 geno

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Describe background selection
When a highly fit allele declines because it is linked to a deleterious allele
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Why is quantitative genetics important?
includes most traits related to evolution, ecology, agriculture, hunting and fishing regulation, medicine, conservation, follow Mendel's laws and H-W
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Can populations have identical allele frequencies but different chromosome frequencies in 2-loci H-W?
YEP!
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Allele frequencies + haplotype frequencies (when calculating D (linkage disequilibrium coefficient) MUST =
equal to 1


Looking at 

if D = 0 -> loci are completely unlinked (equilibrium)

if D = + or - -> loci are completely linked (equilibrium)

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Describe genetic hitchhiking
when a deleterious allele can become fixed if on the same chromosome as a beneficial one
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Response of quantitative traits to selection depends on:
- how many polymorphic loci for the trait

- distribution of effects (many loci = small effect, OR few loci = big effect)

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Define Haplotype
multilocus genotype of a chromosome or gamete
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What causes linkage disequilibrium?
1. Physical linkage

    - loci are close together on a chromosome


2. selection on multi-locus genotypes

    - if predation targets people w/ less capital lettered alleles, B will pair with a and A will pair with b

3. genetic drift

   - random change of frequency of alleles in finite populations

4. population admixture

    - combining two populations with different allele and chromosome frequencies resulting in disequilibrium (excess or reduced number of certain haplotypes)


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Describe selective sweep
reduction or elimination of variation due to strong selection
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Ways we can determine genetic basis of quantitative traits?
1. quantitative trait mapping (2 phenos, linkage map, cross pollinate...etc. flowers!)


2. candidate genes (genes w/ functions known in other organisms)

3. heritability (common garden experiments)

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