Minimum distance estimation of mutational parameters for quantitative traits.

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Individual spontaneous mutations affecting the expression of quantitative traits cannot be systematically identified and, therefore, their effect on the trait cannot be measured. Thus, the rate of occurrence of such mutations and the moments of the probability distribution of the corresponding effects, which are important in evolutionary studies, remain unknown. Here we propose a method to estimate those...

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