Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Lecture, chapter 5 - Polygenic and multifactorial inheritance

Today we finished chapter 4 (pedigree analysis) and started chapter 5, on polygenic and multifactorial inheritance.

We introduced the main differences between continuous and discontinuous variation, and discussed why to study the former we need to make use of statistics, studying large samples (populations) under the scope of quantitative genetics. In the next meeting we will introduce some important concepts in quantitative genetics.

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