Epigenetic contribution to covariance between relatives

Genetics

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1037-1050

  Tal, Omri ^a   Kisdi, Eva ^b   Jablonka, Eva ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COVARIANCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEREDITY; INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PEDIGREE;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 77953230512     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.112466     Document Type: Article

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