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It can also accommodate overdominance of the resistant alleles ( a > 1; b > d ; c > d ), in which each heterozygote does better than either corresponding homozygote, and underdominance, in which each heterozygote does worse than either corresponding homozygote ( a < 1; b < 1; c < d ). In this model, susceptibility and resistance are relative and simply refer respectively to lower and higher probabilities of favorable disease course, given infection.
The relative risk (RR) of a favorable outcome for a heterozygote compared to a homozygote is defined as:
Figure 1shows that allele-specific overdominance (the biological phenomenon of interest) and population heterozygote advantage (the finding of epidemiological studies such as those cited above) are two different things.
When allele frequencies are equal, as in Example 1, partial dominance is sufficient to create population heterozygote advantage [ 10 11 ] . When allele frequencies differ, the conditions for population heterozygote advantage may become broader or narrower.
Using the relative risk equation above, it can be shown by taking partial derivatives with respect to the parameters p , Π and Θ, that (under the assumptions stated above) the relative risk increases with p and Θ and decreases with Π. Thus, population heterozygote advantage is most likely to be observed when resistant alleles are common ( p large) but highly diverse (Π is small), and when susceptible alleles are not diverse (large Θ).