Clarifying the relationship between average excesses and average effects of allele substitutions

Fisher’s concepts of average effects and average excesses are at the core of the quantitative genetics theory. Their meaning and relationship have regularly been discussed and clarified. Here we develop a generalized set of one-locus two-allele orthogonal contrasts for average excesses and average e...

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Main Authors: Jose M eÁlvarez-Castro, Rong-Cai eYang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2012.00030/full