Measuring interference in the chiasma renewal formation process

Abstract

Multilocus recombination structure is introduced using recombination and linkage values. The notion of chiasma interference is discussed and the coincidence measure of interference is defined. The global nature of positive, negative or non-interference is characterized using linkage values. In the case of the renewal chiasma formation process with interdistance distributionFit is shown that the nature of interference depends on the ‘ageing' properties of F such as IFR, NBU, NBUE and DMRL.