Applications du processus ancestral avec recombinaison et conversion en génétique statistique
The ancestral process is applied to investigate the amount of DNA variation and the amount of linkage disequilibrium ; it is also applied to make statistical inference about the multiple factors responsible for this variation. Considering genetic drift, mutation, and recombination events, the exact solutions for linkage disequilibrium between two loci are obtained. Furthermore, the association measure between two loci is obtained by using an approximation of the exact process, SMC (sequentially Markov chain), and correcting a covariance formula. After introducing intrachromosomal gene conversion under the Moran model, the expected amounts of variation within and between two loci are obtained using expected times spent in the ancestral states. Furthermore, the expectation of linkage disequilibrium is obtained and it is shown to decrease as the recombination rate is increased. Using these theoretical results, a method for estimating the mutation, recombination and gene conversion parameters is presented.
coalescent conversion Ancestral process coalescent conversion genetic variability linkage disequilibrium Moran model recombination