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AS an outcome of his prolonged and elaborate studies of the inheritance of racing capacity in the thoroughbred horse, Dr. Harry H. Laughlin has put forward a mathematical expression termed “The General Formula of Heredity” which he has discussed in a recent paper under the same title (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 19, 787; 1933). He remarks that the majority of characters in which practical men are interested are too complex genetically for their inheritance to have been analysed in terms of genes:
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FISHER, R. Mathematics of Inheritance. Nature 132, 1012 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/1321012a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1321012a0