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Quantitative Genetics: Understanding Polygenic Inheritance, Heritability, and Twin Studies, Study notes of Genetics

Cabrini University Genetics

An overview of quantitative genetics, focusing on polygenic inheritance, heritability, and twin studies. Topics include continuous variation, additive alleles, calculating the number of genes, broad sense heritability, narrow sense heritability, and twin studies. The document also covers statistical tools such as mean, variance, and standard deviation, as well as the concept of quantitative trait loci (QTL).

What you will learn

What is polygenic inheritance and how does it differ from discontinuous inheritance?
What role do twin studies play in understanding heritability and quantitative trait loci (QTL)?

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Quantitative Genetics

•Polygenic inheritance

Continuous variation

Additive alleles

Calculating the number of genes

•Heritability

Statistical tools: Mean, variance

Broad sense heritability

Narrow sense heritability

Twin Studies and concordance

Polygenic inheritance

•2 or more genes

•Show continuous

variation vs

discontinuous

•Additive component

•Distinct phenotypic

classes

•Quantitative traits:

size, weight, height,IQ

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