Analysis of the inheritance, selection and evolution of growth trajectories.

doi:10.1093/genetics/124.4.979

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Analysis of the inheritance, selection and evolution of growth trajectories.

Genetics - 1 Apr 1990

Kirkpatrick M, Lofsvold D, Bulmer M

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We present methods for estimating the parameters of inheritance and selection that appear in a quantitative genetic model for the evolution growth trajectories and other "infinite-dimensional" traits that we recently introduced. Two methods for estimating the additive genetic covariance function...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Genetic Variation
Growth
Male
Mice
Models, Genetic
Selection, Genetic

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