Relative contribution of additive, dominance, and imprinting effects to phenotypic variation in body size and growth between divergent selection lines of mice.

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Epigenetic effects attributed to genomic imprinting are increasingly recognized as an important source of variation in quantitative traits. However, little is known about their relative contribution to phenotypic variation compared to those of additive and dominance effects, and almost nothing about their role in phenotypic evolution. Here we address these questions by investigating the relative contribution of...

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