linkage disequilibrium

(noun)

a non-random association of two or more alleles at two or more loci; normally caused by an interaction between genes

Related Terms

  • polymorphism
  • genetic hitchhiking

Examples of linkage disequilibrium in the following topics:

  • No Perfect Organism

    • Alleles that are carried together are in linkage disequilibrium.
  • Impacts of Surpluses and Shortages on Market Equilibrium

    • The existence of surpluses or shortages in supply will result in disequilibrium, or a lack of balance between supply and demand levels.
    • Shifts such as these in the supply availability results in disequilibrium, or essentially a lack of balance between current supply and demand levels.
  • Teaching for Conceptual Change

    • These strategies involve creating situations where learners' existing conceptions about particular phenomena or topics are made explicit and then directly challenged in order to create a state of cognitive conflict or disequilibrium.
  • Genetic Linkage and Violation of the Law of Independent Assortment

    • The segregation of alleles into gametes can be influenced by linkage, in which genes that are located physically close to each other on the same chromosome are more likely to be inherited as a pair.
    • To understand this, let's consider the biological basis of gene linkage and recombination.
    • Mendel's seminal publication makes no mention of linkage, and many researchers have questioned whether he encountered linkage, but chose not to publish those crosses out of concern that they would invalidate his independent assortment postulate.
    • However, even if the genes he examined were not located on separate chromosomes, it is possible that he simply did not observe linkage because of the extensive shuffling effects of recombination.
  • Lambda sets and bridges

    • This approach identifies the #2 to #5 (MAYR to COMM) linkage as the most important one in the graph - in the sense that it carries a great deal of traffic, and the graph would be most disrupted if it were removed.
    • This result can be confirmed by looking at the graph, where we see that most actors are connected to most other actors by way of the linkage between #2 and #5.
    • Considerably less critical are linkages between 2 and 5 and actors 1, 3, 4, 7, and 10.
  • Reasons for and Consequences of Shift in Aggregate Supply

    • The aggregate supply curve may shift labor market disequilibrium or labor market equilibrium.
  • Adherens Junctions

    • Adherens junctions provide strong mechanical attachments between adjacent cells through the linkage of cytoplasmic face with cytoskeleton.
  • Mechanisms of Chemical Digestion

    • Amylose is not highly branched and consists mainly of long chains of glucose linked by α1:4 linkages.
    • Cellulose, the most abundant starch in nature, is formed of β1:4 linkages and cannot be digested in humans, although bacterial action in the colon does breakdown a minute amount.
    • Glycogen is a multi-branched starch with linkages at the 1:4 and 1:6 position.
    • This breaks amylose down into mainly disaccharides, and glycogen with its 1:6 linkages into polysaccharides .
  • DNA and RNA

    • The phosphate residue is attached to the hydroxyl group of the 5′ carbon of one sugar and the hydroxyl group of the 3′ carbon of the sugar of the next nucleotide, which forms a 5′3′ phosphodiester linkage.
    • The phosphodiester linkage is not formed by simple dehydration reaction like the other linkages connecting monomers in macromolecules: its formation involves the removal of two phosphate groups.
    • A polynucleotide may have thousands of such phosphodiester linkages.
  • Genetic Maps

    • The study of genetic maps begins with linkage analysis, a procedure that analyzes the recombination frequency between genes to determine if they are linked or show independent assortment.
    • The term linkage was used before the discovery of DNA.
    • The mapping of genes relative to each other based on linkage analysis led to the development of the first genetic maps.
    • Linkage analysis involves studying the recombination frequency between any two genes.
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