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Commentary: Fisher's infinitesimal model: A story for the ages.

Theoretical population biology - 1 Dec 2017

Turelli Michael

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Mendel (1866) suggested that if many heritable "factors" contribute to a trait, near-continuous variation could result. Fisher (1918) clarified the connection between Mendelian inheritance and continuous trait variation by assuming many loci, each with small effect, and by informally invoking the...

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PMID: 28987627
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2017.09.003

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