On estimating number of genes by genotype assay
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Heredity
- Vol. 40 (3), 397-403
- https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1978.46
Abstract
The method of genotype assay, proposed by Jinks and Towey (1976) for estimating the number of effective factors in a polygenic system, assumes independent segregation if applied to number of genes. Their results are extended to include the case of linked genes, and the ratio of expected number of effective factors to number of genes is computed for a range of models. Unless all genes are on different chromosomes or many generations of inbreeding are used, the estimate of gene number is biased downwards.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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