Genic interaction and linkage

Abstract

In the analyses of the foregoing chapters we have assumed that, save in one respect, the different genes were independent of one another in the contribution that they made to the various statistics, means, variances and covariances, under discussion. To put it in other words, we have assumed that the gene effects were simply additive, the exceptional respect being that we have accommodated dominance by incorporating the parameter h in the models we have constructed and tested.