Influence of Dominance and Drift on Lethal Mutations in Human Populations

We consider disease-causing mutations that are lethal when homozygous. Lethality involves the very strongest form of negative selection, with the selection coefficient against the disease-carrying homozygote having its maximum value of unity. We determine results for the behavior of the frequency of...

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Main Authors: David Waxman, Andrew D. J. Overall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2020.00267/full