Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)
On the Quantitative Genetics of Mixture Characters
... Some basic results of standard theory of quantitative genetics under additive inheritance were extended to finite mixture models with Gaussian components. It was found that, if there is heterogeneity in a ...
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D. S. Falconer and Introduction to Quantitative Genetics
... of genetics in Britain, and from 1949, in genetics, namely Hardy-Weinberg, selection, inbreed- addition to honors undergraduate courses, a postgradu- ing, and genetic ...in Genetics was started at ...
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Quantitative genetics of sheep preference in red clover (Trifolium pratense L ) under spaced plant and sward conditions : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph D ) in Pasture Breeding, Department of Plant Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... The plant breeding section reviews breeding methods for cross-pollinated species, the reproductive incompatibility system of Red clover and considerations about quantitative genetics the[r] ...
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Quantitative Genetics of Food Intake in Drosophila melanogaster.
... I further applied quantitative genetics approaches to examine food intake using mass selection. In Chapter 3, I describe the phenotypic responses from the application of selection pressure on a base ...
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Reliable confidence intervals in quantitative genetics: narrow-sense heritability
... of quantitative genetic methods to organisms that can be bred at high ...the quantitative genetic approach is rarely directly criticised for inaccurate estimates (but see Mitch- ell-Olds and Rutledge ...in ...
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Understanding Quantitative Genetics in the Systems Biology Era
... systems quantitative genetics but being mainly solved from the view of molecular quantitative genetics have been done ...genetical genetics [20-23] [41-45] [83] [84] have preliminarily ...
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Detecting polygenic selection in marine populations by combining population genomics and quantitative genetics approaches
... from quantitative genetics, which combined with newly available genome-wide polymorphism data, will un- doubtedly provide deeper insights into the genetic architecture of complex fitness ...the ...
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Quantitative genetics of doubled haploid populations and application to the theory of line development.
... From a plant breeding point of view, the theory introduced leads to the conclusion that the single doubled haploid descent recurrent selection will be one of the most effi[r] ...
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Quantitative genetics of Eucalyptus globulus: Affinities of land race and native stand localities
... R. J.: Tree Planting in Southern Africa. Vol. 2. The Eucalypts. South Africa Forestry Research Institute, South Africa (1979). — P RADO , J. A. and A LVEAR , C.: Resultados de ensayos de procedencias y progenies de ...
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Quantitative genetics of Eucalyptus globulus, E nitens and their F1 hybrid
... Moderate levels of heritability were demonstrated for frost resistance in both species, but dominance effects could not be accurately estimated.. The correlation of performance of parent[r] ...
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Quantitative genetics of Eucalyptus globulus, E nitens and their F1 hybrid
... Genetic analysis of interspecific backcross families of a hybrid of Eucalyptus grandis and Eucalyptus globt~lus.In 'Hybrid Breeding and Genetics of Forest Trees'.. of QFRIICRC-SPF Sympos[r] ...
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Developmental Quantitative Genetics, Conditional Epigenetic Variability and Growth in Mice
... Figures 3 and 4 give the conditional variance compo- nents for body weight and tail length where the genetic effects are conditioned on the gene expression of the traits [r] ...
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Quantitative genetics of response to competitors in Nemophila menziesii: a field experiment.
... Two aspects of experimental design may tend to obscure genetically based tradeoffs across environments in many previously published experiments: (1) inability to isolate a[r] ...
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The Quantitative Genetics of Maximal and Basal Rates of Oxygen Consumption in Mice
... their reciprocal hybrids. Am. J. Physiol. 267 (Regulatory, Integ- This article was part of a dissertation presented by the first author rative, and Comparative Physiology 36): R1098–R1108. to the University of Wisconsin ...
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Quantitative genetics of sex ratio traits in the parasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis.
... Statistical procedures: We used least-squares regression analysis of arc-sine transformed values and logistic regression analysis to assess the relationship between mother and [r] ...
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Chapter 18: Quantitative Genetics I Important Concepts
... In the chapter on Mendel and Morgan, we saw how the transmission of genes from one generation to another follows a precise mathematical formula. The traits discussed in that chapter, however, were discrete traits—peas ...
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Quantitative genetics of gene expression during fruit fly development
... Over the last ten years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been used to identify genetic variants associated with many diseases as well as quantitative phenotypes, by exploiting naturally occurring ...
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Quantitative Genetics of Sperm Precedence in Drosophila melanogaster
... To assess the genetic basis of sperm competition under conditions in which it occurs, I estimated additive, dominance, homozygous and environmental variance component[r] ...
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Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics of Genomic Imprinting
... Both family-level and sex-specific selection are common in animal breeding (Lynch and Walsh 1998; Goddard and Hayes 2009), and we show that responses to both can be affected by genomic imprinting. Family-level selection ...
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Quantitative genetics in Edinburgh: 1947-1980.
... There were then (I think) only three university departments of genetics in the United King- dom: London’s University College (where J. Edin- burgh’s department was the[r] ...
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