On epistasis: Why it is unimportant in polygenic directional selection

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1544, 2010, Pages 1241-1244

  Crow, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance; Epistasis; Quantitave inheritance

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE; EPISTASIS; GENETICS; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION;

EID: 77951542842     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0275     Document Type: Review

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