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PRINCIPLES OF FOURTH EDITION

Daniel L. Hartl Harvard University Andrew G. Clark Cornell University

Daniel L. Hartl & Andrew G. Clark

Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers Sunderland, Massachusetts

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PREFACE xii

1GENETIC AND PHENOTYPIC VARIATION 3

1.1 RELEVANCE OF POPULATION GENETICS 4 Allele Frequencies and Genotype Frequencies 18 1.2 PHENOTYPIC VARIATION IN NATURAL and Heterozygosity 20 POPULATIONS 5 Allozyme Polymorphisms 21 Continuous Variation: The Normal Inferences from Allozyme Distribution 5 Polymorphisms 23 Mean and Variance 6 1.6 POLYMORPHISMS IN DNA The Central Limit Theorem 8 SEQUENCES 25 Discrete Mendelian Variation 10 Restriction Enzymes 25 1.3 MULTIPLE-FACTOR INHERITANCE 12 The Polymerase Chain Reaction 28 1.4 MAINTENANCE OF GENETIC Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms 32 VARIATION 14 Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Polymorphisms 32 1.5 MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS 15 Segregating Sites and Nucleotide Electrophoresis 16 Mismatches 34 1.7 UTILITY OF GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS 38

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2ORGANIZATION OF 45

2.1 RANDOM MATING 46 2.4 EXTENSIONS OF THE HARDY-WEINBERG Nonoverlapping Generations 47 PRINCIPLE 67 Three or More Alleles 67 2.2 THE HARDY-WEINBERG PRINCIPLE 48 X-Linked Genes 70 Random Mating of Genotypes versus Random Union of Gametes 50 2.5 LINKAGE AND LINKAGE Implications of the Hardy-Weinberg DISEQUILIBRIUM 73 Principle 52 Difficulties in Testing for Linkage Equilibrium 82 2.3 TESTING FOR HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM 54 Relative Measures of Linkage Disequilibrium: D’ and r2 83 Difficulties in Testing for Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium 54 2.6 CAUSES OF LINKAGE Complications of Dominance 62 DISEQUILIBRIUM 84 Frequency of Heterozygotes 66 Linkage Disequilibrium Due to Population Admixture 85 Linkage Disequilibrium Due to Reduced Recombination 86

3RANDOM 95

3.1 RANDOM GENETIC DRIFT AND Unequal Sex Ratio, Sex Chromosomes, BINOMIAL SAMPLING 95 Organelle Genes 123 Variance in Offspring Number 126 3.2 THE WRIGHT–FISHER MODEL OF Effective Size of a Subdivided RANDOM GENETIC DRIFT 102 Population 127

3.3 THE DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION 105 3.6 GENE TREES AND COALESCENCE 128 An Approach Looking Forward 106 Coalescent Effective Size 133 An Approach Looking Backward 110 Coalescence with Population Growth 134 Absorption Time and Time Coalescent Models with 136 to Fixation 112 Applications of Coalescent Methods 137

3.4 RANDOM DRIFT IN A SUBDIVIDED 3.7 THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS OF POPULATION 113 COALESCENCE 138 3.5 EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE 121 Coalescent Models with Recombination 140 Fluctuation in Population Size 121 Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping 143

4MUTATION AND THE NEUTRAL THEORY 151

4.1 MUTATION 151 4.3 THE NEUTRAL THEORY OF MOLECULAR Irreversible Mutation 152 161 Reversible Mutation 156 4.4 THE INFINITE-ALLELES MODEL 162 4.2 MUTATION AND RANDOM GENETIC The Ewens Sampling Formula 166 DRIFT 158 The Ewens-Watterson Test 168 Probability of Fixation of a New Neutral Mutation 160

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4.5 INFINITE-SITES MODEL 172 4.6 MUTATION AND RECOMBINATION 182 Nucleotide Polymorphism and Nucleotide A Model for the Evolutionary Benefit of Diversity 175 Recombination 183 Tajima’s D Statistic 176 Muller’s Ratchet 185 The Fu and Li Test of Fit to Neutral Piecewise Recombination in Bacteria 187 Coalescence 178 Animal Mitochondrial DNA 189

5DARWINIAN SELECTION 199

5.1 SELECTION IN HAPLOID 5.5 MORE COMPLEX TYPES OF ORGANISMS 200 SELECTION 229 Discrete Generations 200 Differential Selection in the Sexes 229 Continuous Time 204 X-Linked Genes 230 Change in Allele Frequency in Haploids 205 Frequency-Dependent Selection 230 Darwinian Fitness and Malthusian Density-Dependent Selection 231 Fitness 206 Fecundity Selection 231 5.2 SELECTION IN DIPLOID ORGANISMS 206 Age-Structured Populations 232 Change in Allele Frequency in Diploids 208 Heterogenous Environments and Clines 232 Marginal Fitness and Selection with Multiple Alleles 212 Diversifying Selection 234 Application to the Evolution of Insecticide Gametic Selection 236 Resistance 215 Meiotic Drive 236 Multiple Loci and Gene Interaction: 5.3 EQUILIBRIA WITH SELECTION 215 Epistasis 239 Overdominance 216 Evolution of Recombination Rate 241 Local Stability 220 241 Heterozygote Inferiority 222 Kin Selection 243 Stable Equilibria with Multiple Alleles 223 5.6 INTERDEME SELECTION IN Adaptive Topography and the Role of Random Genetic Drift 225 GEOGRAPHICALLY SUBDIVIDED POPULATIONS 245 5.4 MUTATION-SELECTION BALANCE 226 Equilibrium Allele Frequencies 226 5.7 SELECTION IN A FINITE POPULATION 248 The Haldane-Muller Principle 228 Weak Selection and the Nearly Neutral Theory 248 Genetic “Draft” 251

6INBREEDING, POPULATION SUBDIVISION, AND MIGRATION 257

6.1 INBREEDING 257 6.2 POPULATION SUBDIVISION 275 The Inbreeding Coefficient 258 Reduction in Heterozygosity Due to Genotype Frequencies with Inbreeding 259 Population Subdivision 276 Genetic Effects of Inbreeding 265 Average Heterozygosity 278 Calculation of the Inbreeding Coefficient Wright’s F Statistics 281 from Pedigrees 268 Linanthus Revisited: Evidence for Selection Regular Systems of Mating 272 Associated with Flower Color 285

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Inference of Population Structure from 6.4 ASSORTATIVE MATING 294 Multilocus Genotype Data 286 6.5 MIGRATION 295 6.3 THE WAHLUND PRINCIPLE 288 One-Way Migration 295 Wahlund’s Principle and the Fixation The Island Model of Migration 297 Index 291 How Migration Limits Genetic Genotype Frequencies in Subdivided Divergence 299 Populations 291 Estimates of Migration Rates 303 Relation between the Inbreeding Coefficient and the F Statistics 293 Coalescence-Based Estimates of Migration 303 Migration-Selection Balance 307

7MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS 317

7.1 THE NEUTRAL THEORY AND 7.5 POLYMORPHISM AND DIVERGENCE MOLECULAR EVOLUTION 318 IN NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE— Theoretical Principles of the Neutral THE MCDONALD-KREITMAN AND Theory 318 HKA TESTS 351 7.2 ESTIMATING RATES OF MOLECULAR Polymorphism and Divergence in SEQUENCE DIVERGENCE 321 Noncoding Sequences 354 Rates of Amino Acid Replacement 322 Impact of Local Recombination Rates 354 Rates of Nucleotide Substitution 326 Substitution Models for Structural RNA Genes 356 Statistical Fitting of Nucleotide Substitution Models 329 7.6 GENE GENEALOGIES 358 7.3 THE MOLECULAR CLOCK 329 Hypothesis Testing Using Trees 358 Variation among Genes in the Rate of the 7.7 MITOCHONDRIAL AND CHLOROPLAST Molecular Clock 332 DNA EVOLUTION 362 Variation across Lineages in Clock Chloroplast DNA and Organelle Rate 334 Transmission in Plants 363 The Generation-Time Effect 337 Maintenance of Variation in Organelle The Overdispersed Molecular Clock and Genomes 364 the Neutral Theory 338 Evidence for Selection in mtDNA 365 The Nearly Neutral Theory 339 7.8 MOLECULAR 366 7.4 PATTERNS OF NUCLEOTIDE AND AMINO Algorithms for ACID SUBSTITUTION 340 Reconstruction 366 Calculating Synonymous and Non- Distance Methods versus Parsimony 369 synonymous Substitution Rates 340 Bootstrapping and Statistical Confidence Codon Substitution Models 343 in a Tree 370 Observations of Synonymous and Bayesian Methods 370 Nonsynonymous Substitution Rates 345 Trans-Species Polymorphism 371 Polymorphism within Species 347 Implications of Codon Usage Bias 349 7.9 MULTIGENE FAMILIES 372 Concerted Evolution 374 Subfunctionalization 375 Birth-and-Death Process 376

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8EVOLUTIONARY QUANTITATIVE GENETICS 385

8.1 TYPES OF QUANTITATIVE TRAITS 387 8.7 NORM OF REACTION, THRESHOLD TRAITS, AND GENETIC CORRELATION 433 8.2 RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN RELATIVES AND Norm of Reaction and Phenotypic THE CONCEPT OF HERITABILITY 388 Plasticity 433 8.3 ARTIFICIAL SELECTION AND REALIZED Threshold Traits: Genes as Risk Factors HERITABILITY 394 in Disease 437 Contribution of New to the Genetic Correlation and Correlated Response to Selection 396 Response 439 Prediction Equation for Individual 8.8 EVOLUTIONARY QUANTITATIVE Selection 397 GENETICS 443 Limits to Selection 400 Inference of Selection from Phenotypic 8.4 GENETIC MODELS FOR QUANTITATIVE Data 443 TRAITS 403 Evolution of Multiple Intercorrelated Traits 444 Change in Allele Frequency 412 Random Genetic Drift and Phenotypic Change in Mean Phenotype 413 Evolution 446 Linearity of Response 415 Mutational Variance and Mutation- 8.5 COMPONENTS OF PHENOTYPIC Accumulation Experiments 448 VARIANCE 416 Mutation-Selection Balance for Quantitative Traits 449 Genetic and Environmental Sources of Variation 416 8.9 GENES THAT AFFECT QUANTITATIVE Components of Genotypic Variation 422 TRAITS 452 8.6 COVARIANCE AMONG RELATIVES 426 The Number of Genes Affecting Quantitative Traits 453 Twin Studies and Inferences of Heritability in Humans 430 Methods for Mapping QTLs 455 Estimation of Genetic Variance Components in Natural Populations 432

9POPULATION GENOMICS 469

9.1 EVOLUTION OF GENOME SIZE Decline of Linkage Disequilibrium with AND COMPOSITION 470 Genetic Distance 483 Organismic Complexity and the C-Value 9.3 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPECIES 484 Paradox 470 Comparison of Nonsynonymous and Base Composition of Genomic DNA 471 Synonymous Divergence 484 9.2 GENOME-WIDE PATTERNS OF Positive Selection 486 POLYMORPHISM 473 Exploiting a Phylogenetic Signal 487 Excess Polymorphism in Subtelomeric Polymorphism and Divergence 487 Regions 473 Compensated Pathogenic Polymorphism and Rates of Deviations 489 Recombination 475 Structure-Function Analysis 491 Hitchhiking versus Background 9.4 SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE SEX Selection 477 CHROMOSOMES 492 Linkage Disequilibrium and Haplotype Structures 481 Faster-Male Molecular Evolution 493

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Molecular Evolution of Genes in the Factors Controlling the Population X Chromosome 495 Dynamics of Transposable Haldane’s Rule 495 Elements 501 Demasculinization of the Insertion Sequences and Composite X Chromosome 497 Transposons in Bacteria 502 Transposable Elements in Eukaryotes 505 9.5 TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS 498 Population Dynamics of Transposable Diverse Types of Transposable Elements 505 Elements 498 Nonuniformity of Transposition Rates 506 Horizontal Transmission of Transposable Elements 511

10 HUMAN POPULATION GENETICS 519

10.1 HUMAN POLYMORPHISM 520 Linkage Disequilibrium in Admixed Populations: Admixture Mapping 544 Public SNP Resources and the HapMap Project 521 Inbred Populations and Homozygosity Mapping 544 10.2 POPULATION GENETIC INFERENCES ENDELIAN ISEASE AND FROM HUMAN SNPS 524 10.5 M D POPULATION GENETICS 547 Ascertainment Bias of SNP Genotypes 524 Mutation-Selection Balance 548 Departures from Hardy-Weinberg Dating the Origin of Mutant Alleles 548 Frequencies 527 10.6 GENETIC BASIS FOR VARIATION IN Site Frequency Spectrum and Human RISK OF COMPLEX DISEASE 550 Population Growth 527 Mapping Methods Based on Linkage 550 Rooting Human Polymorphism 529 Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping 552 Inference of Inhomogeneities in the Mutation Process 530 Genome-Wide Association Studies 553 Inferences about Male and Female 10.7 SEEKING SIGNATURES OF HUMAN- Mutation Rates 531 SPECIFIC GENETIC 10.3 LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM ACROSS THE 554 HUMAN GENOME 532 Interspecific Divergence 554 The Landscape of Human Linkage McDonald-Kreitman and Poisson Disequilibrium 532 Random Field Tests 555 Inferences about Local Rates of Local Distortions in Linkage Recombination 537 Disequilibrium 556 F Tests 557 10.4 POPULATION STRUCTURE INFERRED ST Genome Scans for Selection–Skewed FROM HUMAN POLYMORPHISM 539 Site Frequency Spectrum 557 Multilocus Methods of Inference of Stratification 540 10.8 HUMAN ORIGINS 558 Heterogeneity in Linkage Disequilibrium Neanderthal Genome Sequence 562 across Human Populations 542

ANSWERS TO CHAPTER–END PROBLEMS 567 AUTHOR INDEX 629

BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 SUBJECT INDEX 635

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