Linkage disequilibrium and recombination. - in our treatment of population genetics up to this point we have assumed that the transmission. of alleles at a given locus across generations are independent of alleles at a second locus. - we have also assumed that the fitnesses of genotypes at one locus are not affected by genotypes. at another locus.
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