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Inheritance beyond plain heritability: variance-controlling genes in Arabidopsis thaliana.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2012
Shen Xia, Pettersson Mats, Rönnegård Lars, Carlborg Örjan
Abstract excerpt
The phenotypic effect of a gene is normally described by the mean-difference between alternative genotypes. A gene may, however, also influence the phenotype by causing a difference in variance between genotypes. Here, we reanalyze a publicly available Arabidopsis thaliana dataset [1] and show that genetic variance heterogeneity appears to be as common as normal additive effects on a genomewide scale. The study...
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