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Comparing the means of inbred lines with the base population: a model with overdominant loci

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Francis Minvielle
Francis Minvielle
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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For one-, two- and n-locus models of a quantitative trait assumed to be determined by overdominant loci, it is shown that the mean of an inbred line will be equal to or larger than the mean of the base population if the original gene frequencies satisfy a condition which is generally a function of the degree of overdominance and of the genotypic values.

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Short Paper
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , February 1979 , pp. 89 - 92
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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