Review: Balancing Selection for Deleterious Alleles in Livestock

Harmful alleles can be under balancing selection due to an interplay of artificial selection for the variant in heterozygotes and purifying selection against the variant in homozygotes. These pleiotropic variants can remain at moderate to high frequency expressing an advantage for favorable traits i...

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Main Authors: Martijn F. L. Derks, Marije Steensma
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/c56aa3e007a44fd0b30121ed74f711c3
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