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Contribution of maternal effect QTL to genetic architecture of early growth in mice.
Heredity - 1 Oct 2002
Wolf J B, Vaughn T T, Pletscher L S, Cheverud J M
Abstract excerpt
Existing approaches to characterizing quantitative trait loci (QTL) utilize a paradigm explicitly focused on the direct effects of genes, where phenotypic variation among individuals is mapped onto genetic variation of those individuals. For many characters, however, the genotype of the mother via its maternal effect accounts for a considerable portion of the genetically based variation in progeny phenotypes....
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