A note on Fisher's ‘average effect’ and ‘average excess’
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Genetics Research
- Vol. 46 (3) , 337-347
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016672300022825
Abstract
The average effect and average excess of a gene substitution are formulated in terms of gene frequencies and inbreeding coefficient. This clarifies their meanings and shows how each is affected by non-random mating. The meanings of various definitions are examined, and one commonly used definition of average effect is found to be invalid with non-random mating. The concept of breeding value is shown to have no useful meaning when mating is not random.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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