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Impact of interpopulation divergence on additive and dominance variance in hybrid populations.
Genetics - 1 Jul 2007
Reif J C, Gumpert F-M, Fischer S, Melchinger A E
Abstract excerpt
We present a theoretical proof that the ratio of the dominance vs. the additive variance decreases with increasing genetic divergence between two populations. While the dominance variance is the major component of the variance due to specific combining ability (sigma(SCA)(2)), the additive variance is the major component of the variance due to general combining ability (sigma(GCA)(2)). Therefore, we conclude that...
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