基因第9正态分布医学遗传学系多表型.pdfVIP

Chapter 9. Polygenic Inheritance and the Normal Distribution Weiying Jiang Department of Medical G ics Polygenic Inheritance The inheritance and expression of a phenotype being determined by many genes at different loci, with each gene exerting a small additive effect. • Additive effect implies that the effects of the genes are cumulative, i.e. no one gene is dominant or recessive to another. A few people