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Quantitative genetics is the study of inherited characters that exhibit continuous or almost continuous variation. Such traits are usually influenced by many loci and the environment. Since a very large proportion of anatomical, physiological, and behavioral characters are quantitative, the evolutionary, economic, and medical importance of inherited continuous variation is difficult to overestimate. Height, brain volume, hair and skin color, blood pressure, and various measures of personality and intelligence all fall into this category.
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Nagylaki, T. (1992). Quantitative Genetics. In: Introduction to Theoretical Population Genetics. Biomathematics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76214-7_10
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