Pleiotropy as a factor maintaining genetic variation in quantitative characters under stabilizing selection

Genetical Research

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-73

  Gimelfarb, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

EID: 0029818830     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300033899     Document Type: Article

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