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Differential dominance of pleiotropic loci for mouse skeletal traits.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2009
Kenney-Hunt Jane P, Cheverud James M
Abstract excerpt
The term "differential dominance" describes the situation in which the dominance effects at a pleiotropic locus vary between traits. Directional selection on the phenotype can lead to balancing selection on differentially dominant pleiotropic loci. Even without any individual overdominant traits, some linear combination of traits will display overdominance at a locus displaying differential dominance....
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