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Quantitative Genetics Videos

January 23, 2024

Videos made for the Quantitative Genetics discipline, of the post-graduate program in Genetics and Plant Breeding at ESALQ/USP, administered by professor Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia. You can find my annotations of all classes here, like the videos, those are in Portuguese. In English I recommend the Felipe Ferrão material, and is more complete than mine. You can access it here.

Single loci properties

Heritability and breeders equation

Epistasis and Cockerhan model

Epistasis is an effect that we must take into account when we are trying to understand the genotypic part of a polygenic trait. First, we try to understand at the level of a single locus, its additive and dominance effects. But as the name implies, the polygenic trait is controlled by several genes, so epistasis measures the interaction between genes from different loci.

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