Article
Pleiotropic models of quantitative variation.
Genetics - 1 Mar 1990
Barton N H
Abstract excerpt
It is widely held that each gene typically affects many characters, and that each character is affected by many genes. Moreover, strong stabilizing selection cannot act on an indefinitely large number of independent traits. This makes it likely that heritable variation in any one trait is maintained as a side effect of polymorphisms which have nothing to do with selection on that trait. This paper examines the...
Topics
- Alleles
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Selection, Genetic