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A computer simulation was performed to see if the distribution of quantitative characters fits to the normal distribution, where the number of loci is relatively small and gene frequencies and genotypic values are different over the loci. Four models (semidominance, incomplete dominance, complete dominance and overdominance models) were proposed, and a good fit was derived even the number of loci is less than twenty or sometimes less than ten.
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Falconer, D.S. 1981.Introduction to Quantitative Genetics, 2nd Ed., Longman, London and New York, p. 95.
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Inouye, E., Mita, K. & Tanaka, S. Computer simulation of the distribution of quantitative characters. Jap J Human Genet 29, 437–445 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01876501
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01876501