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Quantitative Genetics

The branch of genetics concerned with the inheritance of continuously-varying traits.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2011
Review
2011
Progress and Promise of Genome-Wide Association Studies for Human Complex Trait Genetics
Enormous progress in mapping complex traits in humans has been made in the last 5 yr. There has been early success for prevalent… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Combining population genomics and quantitative genetics: finding the genes underlying ecologically important traits
A central challenge in evolutionary biology is to identify genes underlying ecologically important traits and describe the… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
The challenge of improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop plants: towards a more central role for genetic variability and quantitative genetics within integrated approaches.
In this review, recent developments and future prospects of obtaining a better understanding of the regulation of nitrogen use… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
WOMBAT—A tool for mixed model analyses in quantitative genetics by restricted maximum likelihood (REML)
WOMBAT is a software package for quantitative genetic analyses of continuous traits, fitting a linear, mixed model; estimates of… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Multilevel Selection 1: Quantitative Genetics of Inheritance and Response to Selection
Interaction among individuals is universal, both in animals and in plants, and substantially affects evolution of natural… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Theory and practice in quantitative genetics.
With the rapid advances in molecular biology, the near completion of the human genome, the development of appropriate statistical… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF GEOMETRIC SHAPE IN THE MOUSE MANDIBLE
Abstract We combine the methods of geometric morphometrics and multivariate quantitative genetics to study the patterns of… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Mapping quantitative trait loci
Different alleles at quantitative trait loci (QTL) cause genetic differences between individuals and families for quantitative… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Quantitative Genetics of reaction norms
A model of the quantitative genetics of phenotypically plastic characters is developed. When genotype-environment interaction is… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Unrepeatable repeatabilities: a common mistake
-Repeatability is a useful tool for the population geneticist or genetical ecologist, but several papers have carried errors in… 
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