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quantitative genetics
quantitative genetics
- The scientific study of the statistical analysis of the effects that heredity and environment have on phenotypic variation.
Word History and Origins
Origin of quantitative genetics1
Example Sentences
And now pigs may become even more valuable as laboratory animals, because researchers from the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics at Aarhus University have mapped the most important genetic similarities between pigs and humans.
One breed is dominant when it comes to the quantitative genetics game: the hornless, black Angus, which has been promoted as having better beef than others.
There was the biostatistician with a PhD in quantitative genetics, who could not find safety goggles that fit properly when working in the lab with chemicals.
An integrative approach combining quantitative genetics, expression and diversity data permitted development of comprehensive gene networks for two major breeding traits, flowering time and oil metabolism, and revealed new candidate genes in these networks.
He was raised on a small dairy farm and earned a doctorate in statistics and quantitative genetics from the University of Tennessee.
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