Article
Directionality of epistasis in a murine intercross population.
Genetics - 1 Aug 2010
Pavlicev Mihaela, Le Rouzic Arnaud, Cheverud James M, Wagner Günter P, Hansen Thomas F
Abstract excerpt
Directional epistasis describes a situation in which epistasis consistently increases or decreases the effect of allele substitutions, thereby affecting the amount of additive genetic variance available for selection in a given direction. This study applies a recent parameterization of directionality of epistasis to empirical data. Data stems from a QTL mapping study on an intercross between inbred mouse (Mus...
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