In natural selection, negative selection[1] or purifying selection is the selective removal of alleles that are deleterious. This can result in stabilising selection through the purging of deleterious genetic polymorphisms that arise through random mutations.[2][3]
Purging of deleterious alleles can be achieved on the population genetics level, with as little as a single point mutation being the unit of selection. In such a case, carriers of the harmful point mutation have fewer offspring each generation, reducing the frequency of the mutation in the gene pool.
In the case of strong negative selection on a locus, the purging of deleterious variants will result in the occasional removal of linked variation, producing a decrease in the level of variation surrounding the locus under selection. The incidental purging of non-deleterious alleles due to such spatial proximity to deleterious alleles is called background selection.[4] This effect increases with lower mutation rate but decreases with higher recombination rate.[5]
Purifying selection can be split into purging by non-random mating (assortative mating) and purging by genetic drift. Purging by genetic drift can remove primarily deeply recessive alleles, whereas natural selection can remove any type of deleterious alleles.[6]
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See also
- Assortative mating
- Balancing selection
- Directional selection
- Disruptive selection
- Dysgenics
- Fluctuating selection
- Genetic purging
- Koinophilia
- Mutation–selection balance
- Stabilizing selection
References
- ^ Loewe L (2008). "Negative selection". Nature Education. 1 (1): 59.
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- ^ Hudson RR, Kaplan NL (December 1995). "Deleterious background selection with recombination". Genetics. 141 (4): 1605–17. doi:10.1093/genetics/141.4.1605. PMC 1206891. PMID 8601498.
- ^ Glémin S (December 2003). "How are deleterious mutations purged? Drift versus nonrandom mating". Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 57 (12): 2678–87. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb01512.x. PMID 14761049.
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