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The QTN program and the alleles that matter for evolution: all that's gold does not glitter.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2012
Rockman Matthew V
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The search for the alleles that matter, the quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) that underlie heritable variation within populations and divergence among them, is a popular pursuit. But what is the question to which QTNs are the answer? Although their pursuit is often invoked as a means of addressing the molecular basis of phenotypic evolution or of estimating the roles of evolutionary forces, the QTNs that are...
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