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Heterozygous advantage and its relationship to increased heterozygote fertility
Author(s) -
OAKES M. W.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
annals of human genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1469-1809
pISSN - 0003-4800
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1968.tb00061.x
Subject(s) - heterozygote advantage , fertility , trait , genetics , population , biology , simple (philosophy) , gene , demography , allele , computer science , sociology , programming language , philosophy , epistemology
8. SUMMARY A simple model has been discussed which takes into account variable family sizes. It has been shown that these greatly influence the equilibrium gene and trait frequencies in a population of births, for a lethal recessive autosomal gene.