Introduction to Quantitative Genetics

D. S. Falconer and Introduction to quantitative genetics.

DOUGLAS Falconer died on February 23, 2004, in in science, being both more able and older than his contemporaries and, judging by his later years, a clearer Edinburgh. In his career he made many important contributions to quantitative genetics and to the genetthinker and more organized. He took an honors degree in zoology under D’Arcy Thompson (of Growth and Form ics of the mouse. Undoubtedly, ...

Lecture 1 Introduction to Population and Quantitative Genetics

As background for the rest of the lectures in this course, our goal is to introduce some basic concepts from Mendelian genetics (the rules of gene transmission), population genetics (the rules of how genes behave in population), and quantitative genetics (the rules of transmission of complex traits, those with both a genetic and environmental basis). We start with what (at first) may seem somew...

Lecture 4 Introduction to Quantitative Genetics II: Resemblance between relatives

Since an individual’s phenotype can be directly scored, the phenotypic variance VP can be estimated from measurements made directly on the random breeding population. In contrast, an individual’s breeding value cannot be observed directly, but rather must be inferred from the mean value of its offspring (or more generally using the phenotypic values of other known relatives). Thus estimates of ...

Introduction to skeletal genetics.

An Introduction to Conservation Genetics

introductory textbook. It is specifically aimed at medical students learning neuroanatomy, but residents in the neurosciences also have been known to find it a helpful reference. The book has two separate but integrated parts. The first few chapters and the first pages of later chapters are standard didactic text, which is well-written and concise. The second sections of most chapters include c...