title: Fixation probability in a two-locus model by the ancestral recombination-selection graph.
abstract: We use the ancestral influence graph (AIG) for a two-locus, two-allele selection model in the limit of a large population size to obtain an analytic approximation for the probability of ultimate fixation of a single mutant allele A. We assume that this new mutant is introduced at a given locus into a finite population in which a previous mutant allele B is already segregating with a wild type at another linked locus. We deduce that the fixation probability increases as the recombination rate increases if allele A is either in positive epistatic interaction with B and allele B is beneficial or in no epistatic interaction with B and then allele A itself is beneficial. This holds at least as long as the recombination fraction and the selection intensity are small enough and the population size is large enough. In particular this confirms the Hill-Robertson effect, which predicts that recombination renders more likely the ultimate fixation of beneficial mutants at different loci in a population in the presence of random genetic drift even in the absence of epistasis. More importantly, we show that this is true from weak negative epistasis to positive epistasis, at least under weak selection. In the case of deleterious mutants, the fixation probability decreases as the recombination rate increases. This supports Muller's ratchet mechanism to explain the accumulation of deleterious mutants in a population lacking recombination.
authors.affiliation: Département de Mathématiques et de Statistique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada. lessards@dms.umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Sabin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lessard
authors.forename: Amir R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Kermany
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000483:Alleles; D005787:Gene Frequency; D056426:Genetic Loci; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009154:Mutation; D011156:Population Density; D011336:Probability; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012641:Selection, Genetic
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