Will population bottlenecks and multilocus epistasis increase additive genetic variance?

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We apply new analytical methods to understand the consequences of population bottlenecks for expected additive genetic variance. We analyze essentially all models for multilocus epistasis that have been numerically simulated to demonstrate increased additive variance. We conclude that for biologically plausible models, large increases in expected additive variance--attributable to epistasis rather than...

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