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Two general principles in the relationship between genes and characters were already formulated in the 1930's. These principles are: (1) Every gene influences all of the traits of an organism, although its effect on some of them could be small to the point of extinction. (2) Any character of an organism depends on all of the genes in the genome in general, although this dependence of some of them is not noticeable (Astaurov, 1968). This means that the development of each trait is due to a number of successive gene interactions, acting in specific conditions (Rokitsky, 1929).
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Korochkin, L.I., Grossman, A. (1981). Introduction. In: Gene Interactions in Development. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81477-8_1
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