An experimental method for evaluating the contribution of deleterious mutations to quantitative trait variation.

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Unconditionally deleterious mutations could be an important source of variation in quantitative traits. Deleterious mutations should be rare (segregating at low frequency in the population) and at least partially recessive. In this paper, I suggest that the contribution of rare, partially recessive alleles to quantitative trait variation can be assessed by comparing the relative magnitudes of two genetic variance...

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