期刊
THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY
卷 118, 期 -, 页码 50-73出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2017.06.001
关键词
Infinitesimal model; Selection; Epistasis; Quantitative genetics
资金
- ERC [250152]
- EPSRC [EP/K034316/1]
- chaire Modelisation Mathematique et Biodiversite of Veolia Environment - Ecole Polytechnique - Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle - Fondation X
- European Research Council (ERC) [250152] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K034316/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K034316/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Our focus here is on the infinitesimal model. In this model, one or several quantitative traits are described as the sum of a genetic and a non-genetic component, the first being distributed within families as a normal random variable centred at the average of the parental genetic components, and with a variance independent of the parental traits. Thus, the variance that segregates within families is not perturbed by selection, and can be predicted from the variance components. This does not necessarily imply that the trait distribution across the whole population should be Gaussian, and indeed selection or population structure may have a substantial effect on the overall trait distribution. One of our main aims is to identify some general conditions on the allelic effects for the infinitesimal model to be accurate. We first review the long history of the infinitesimal model in quantitative genetics. Then we formulate the model at the phenotypic level in terms of individual trait values and relationships between individuals, but including different evolutionary processes: genetic drift, recombination, selection, mutation, population structure,....We give a range of examples of its application to evolutionary questions related to stabilising selection, assortative mating, effective population size and response to selection, habitat preference and speciation. We provide a mathematical justification of the model as the limit as the number M of underlying loci tends to infinity of a model with Mendelian inheritance, mutation and environmental noise, when the genetic component of the trait is purely additive. We also show how the model generalises to include epistatic effects. We prove in particular that, within each family, the genetic components of the individual trait values in the current generation are indeed normally distributed with a variance independent of ancestral traits, up to an error of order 1/root M. Simulations suggest that in some cases the convergence may be as fast as 1/M. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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