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Data on egg weight from experimental crosses with two inbred lines of chickens suggested evidence for segregation of a single dominant major gene. Because the data could not be transformed to satisfy normality and homoscedasticity conditions, the non-parametric test of Elston and the graphical approach used by Stolk et al. were applied. Due to a bad fit of the backcross B2 (P2×F1) and the F2 groups, both methods reject the hypothesis of a dominant major gene as the the only cause of the differences in egg weight between the six genetic groups involved.
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Hagger, C., Stricker, C., Elston, R.C. et al. Lack of evidence for segregation of a single dominant major gene as the cause of the difference in egg weight between two highly inbred lines of chickens. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 90, 120–123 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00221004
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