title: On the detection of nonrandom associations between DNA polymorphisms in natural populations of Drosophila.
abstract: The capacity to detect nonrandom associations between restriction-map variants was examined in eight gene regions of Drosophila melanogaster (yellow-achaetescute, white, Zw, Adh, Est6, and rosy) and D. pseudoobscura (Adh and Xdh), on the basis of published population data. The statistical power from individual pairwise tests was both heterogeneous and generally low across gene regions. Sample sizes larger than those currently being used are needed to ensure any power to detect disequilibrium by individual tests. It is found that the heterogeneity in power is mostly explained by large differences in the intensity of sample disequilibrium among regions. The yellow-achaete-scute, Zw, and Adh loci of D. melanogaster displayed both the highest mean power (approximately 0.4) and a very great disequilibrium (mean absolute values of D' were 0.8-1). By contrast, all the other gene regions exhibited lower mean power (approximately 0.2) and moderate levels of disequilibrium (0.4-0.6). Although the proportion of significant pairwise associations, especially for white, Est6, and rosy in D. melanogaster and for Adh and Xdh in D. pseudoobscura, is more or less close to the type I error, simultaneous-inference significance tests show that gametic disequilibrium is occurring at the eight DNA regions examined.
authors.affiliation: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zapata
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Alvarez
mesh_terms: D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics; D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D043182:Carboxylesterase; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D005796:Genes; D015810:Linkage Disequilibrium; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D014968:Xanthine Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D004247:DNA; D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase; D014968:Xanthine Dehydrogenase; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases; D043182:Carboxylesterase; C468266:Est-6 protein, Drosophila