Publication Date:
2010-10-16
Description:
Mutation generates the heritable variation that genetic drift and natural selection shape. In classical quantitative genetic models, drift is a function of the effective population size and acts uniformly across traits, whereas mutation and selection act trait-specifically. We identified thousands of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) influencing transcript abundance traits in a cross of two Caenorhabditis elegans strains; although trait-specific mutation and selection explained some of the observed pattern of QTL distribution, the pattern was better explained by trait-independent variation in the intensity of selection on linked sites. Our results suggest that traits in C. elegans exhibit different levels of variation less because of their own attributes than because of differences in the effective population sizes of the genomic regions harboring their underlying loci.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3138179/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3138179/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rockman, Matthew V -- Skrovanek, Sonja S -- Kruglyak, Leonid -- P50 GM071508/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P50 GM071508-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM089972/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM089972-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG004321/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG004321-01/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Oct 15;330(6002):372-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1194208.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA. mrockman@nyu.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20947766" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Animals
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Caenorhabditis elegans/*genetics/physiology
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Chromosome Mapping
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Chromosomes/*genetics
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Crosses, Genetic
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Evolution, Molecular
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Gene Expression
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Genes, Helminth
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*Genetic Variation
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Logistic Models
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Models, Genetic
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Mutation
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Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
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Phenotype
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Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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Population Density
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*Quantitative Trait Loci
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*Quantitative Trait, Heritable
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Recombination, Genetic
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*Selection, Genetic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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