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Change and maintenance of variation in quantitative traits in the context of the Price equation.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  19836408     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The Price equation is a general description of evolutionary change in any character from one generation to the next due to natural selection and other forces such as mutation and recombination. Recently it has been widely utilised in many fields including quantitative genetics, but these applications have focused mainly on the response to selection in the mean of characters. Many different and, in some cases, conflicting models have been investigated by quantitative geneticists to examine the change and maintenance of both genetic and environmental variance of quantitative traits under selection and other forces. In this study, we use the Price equation to derive many such well-known results for the dynamics and equilibria of variances in a straightforward way and to develop them further.
Authors:
Xu-Sheng Zhang; William G Hill
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2009-10-21
Journal Detail:
Title:  Theoretical population biology     Volume:  77     ISSN:  1096-0325     ISO Abbreviation:  Theor Popul Biol     Publication Date:  2010 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-01-29     Completed Date:  2010-04-22     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0256422     Medline TA:  Theor Popul Biol     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  14-22     Citation Subset:  IM    
Copyright Information:
Copyright 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Epistasis, Genetic*
Genetic Fitness
Genetic Variation
Genotype
Humans
Models, Genetic*
Mutation*
Phenotype
Quantitative Trait Loci*
Selection, Genetic*

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