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The infinitesimal model: Definition, derivation, and implications.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Dec 2017
Barton N H, Etheridge A M, Véber A
Abstract excerpt
Our focus here is on the infinitesimal model. In this model, one or several quantitative traits are described as the sum of a genetic and a non-genetic component, the first being distributed within families as a normal random variable centred at the average of the parental genetic components, and with a variance independent of the parental traits. Thus, the variance that segregates within families is not...
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