A note on the correlation between heterozygosity and recombination rate.
Mechanisms responsible for the correlation between heterozygosity and recombination rate have been thought to be background selection and selective sweep. In addition to these two, diversity enhancing selection and/or gene conversion is suggested to be contributing to the correlation, by surveying some examples of highly polymorphic loci that tend to locate in high-recombination regions.
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National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan.
D005785:Gene Conversion; D006579:Heterozygote; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012641:Selection, Genetic