Length Variation of Cag/Caa Trinucleotide Repeats in Natural Populations of Drosophila Melanogaster and Its Relation to the Recombination Rate
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Michalakis, Y.
RESUMO
Eleven genes distributed along the Drosophila melanogaster chromosome 2 and showing exonic tandem repeats of glutamine codons (CAG or CAA) were surveyed for length variation in a sample of four European and African populations. Only one gene was monomorphic. Eight genes were polymorphic in all populations, with a total number of alleles varying between five and 12 for 120 chromosomes. The average heterozygozity per locus and population was 0.41. Selective neutrality in length variation could not be rejected under the assumptions of the infinite allele model. Significant population subdivision was found though no geographical pattern emerged, all populations being equally different. Significant linkage disequilibrium was found in four out of seven cases where the genetic distance between loci was <1 cM and was negligible when the distance was larger. There is evidence that these associations were established after the populations separated. An unexpected result was that variation at each locus was independent of the coefficient of exchange, although the latter ranged from zero to the relatively high value of 6.7%. This would indicate that background selection and selective hitchhiking, which are thought to affect levels of nucleotide substitution polymorphism, have no effect on trinucleotide repeat variation.
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