Summary: Population And Quantitative Genetics

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  • What are chromosomal polymorphisms?

    A condition where one species contains members with varying chromosomes counts or shapes
  • What is the coeffcient of variation (CV)?

    The standard deviation of the trait divided by its mean
  • What is blending inheritance?

    A theory that the progeny inherits any characteristic as the average of the parent 'value of that characteristic'
  • How do you know the proportion of variance in a traits that is due to additive genetic effects?

    With the correlations between close family
  • What are the three measures of summary statistics?

    - The proportion of polymorphic loci (P)
    - The number of different alleles at a locus (A)
    - The gene diversity/heterozygosity (H)
  • What is restriction mapping?

    A method used to map an unknown segment of DNA by breaking it into pieces and then identifying the locations of the breakpoints
  • What are the cons of restriction mapping?

    - It is limited to regions in or close to coding sequences
    - Many variants remain undetected
  • Why are protein sequences constrained by natural selection?

    Non-synonymous variants cause harmful changes and are eliminated from a population
    -> therefore most variants that are dectected in coding sequences are synonymous
  • What is SNP detection useful for?

    Comparing diversity levels
    - but it is not reliable for detecting rare variants -> resequencing is more reliable 
  • Information on variant frequencies can be useful for?

    - Looking if selection has been acting on a gene
    - What kind of selection has been acting
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