How informative is Wright's estimator of the number of genes affecting a quantitative character?

doi:10.1093/genetics/126.1.235

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How informative is Wright's estimator of the number of genes affecting a quantitative character?

Genetics - 1 Sept 1990

Zeng Z B, Houle D, Cockerham C C

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S. Wright suggested an estimator, m, of the number of loci, m, contributing to the difference in a quantitative character between two differentiated populations, which is calculated from the phenotypic means and variances in the two parental populations and their F1 and F2 hybrids. The same metho...

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Alleles
Animals
Computer Simulation
Genetic Linkage
Genetic Variation
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic

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