Abstract
A model of an expanding family of dispersed repetitive DNA was studied. Based on the previous result of the model of duplicative transposition, an approximate solution to give allelism and identity coefficients as functions of time was obtained, and theoretical predictions were verified by Monte Carlo experiments. The results show that, even if the copy number per genome increases very rapidly, allelism and identity coefficients may take a long time to reach equilibrium. The changes of allelism and allelic identity are similar to that of homozygosity at an ordinary single locus, whereas that of nonallelic identity can be much slower, particularly when the copy number per genome is large. Thus, many existing families of highly repetitive sequences may represent nonequilibrium states for nonallelic identity. The present model may be extended to include other evolutionary forces such as gene conversion or the recurrent insertion from normal gene copies.
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