A few weeks ago I posted on how population bottlenecks can convert dominance variance into additive genetic variance. This is important because it is additive genetic variance that is relevant for population level directional selection upon quantitative characters. Now agnostic posts on how epistatic variance can be converted into to additive genetic variance.
Epistatic variance to additive variance
Discover how population bottlenecks influence genetic variance and affect evolution. Key insights on additive genetic variance highlighted.
Written byRazib Khan
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