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Quantitative genetics: past and present
2010-08-01
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Most characters of economic importance in plants and animals, and complex diseases in humans, exhibit quantitative variation, the genetics of which has been a fascinating subject of study since Mendel's discovery of the laws of inheritance. The classical genetic basis of continuous variation based on the infinitesimal model of Fisher and mostly using statistical methods has since undergone major modifications. The...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d9598fba-421a-550a-afe3-de8f4a942c92
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11032-010-9406-4