Artificial intelligent assistant

Is there a term for when a detrimental gene can be positively selected for because of linkage to a very fit gene? Let's say that some piece of DNA would be subject to extreme negative selection if it were independently inherited, but it is very closely linked to an extraordinarily fit gene, and so the complex it belongs to is positively selected for. Is there a term for this phenomenon?

**Genetic hitchhiking / genetic draft**

From wikipedia

> Genetic hitchhiking, also called genetic draft or the hitchhiking effect, is when an allele changes frequency not because it itself is under natural selection, but because it is near another gene on the same chromosome that is undergoing a selective sweep.

The term "selective sweep" is used improperly in the wikipedia definition. One should replace the last sentence by `[..] but because it is near another allele on the same chromosome that is undergoing positive selection` or if we want to reuse the term "sweep", once could say `[..] but because it is near another allele on the same chromosome that is sweeping to high frequency`

**Selective sweep**

From wikipedia

> A selective sweep is the reduction or elimination of variation among the nucleotides in neighboring DNA of a mutation as the result of recent and strong positive natural selection.

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