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View article: Students’, colleagues’ and research partners’ experience about work and accomplishments from collaborating with Robin Thompson
Students’, colleagues’ and research partners’ experience about work and accomplishments from collaborating with Robin Thompson Open
Robin supervised my PhD (1986–1989) together with Bill Hill. I remember that my first supervisors’ meeting was terrible, because I did not bring ideas to the table, expecting to be told what to do. I soon learned how to manage my superviso…
View article: One Hundred Years of Linkage Disequilibrium.
One Hundred Years of Linkage Disequilibrium. Open
One hundred years ago, the first population genetic calculations were made for two loci. They indicated that populations should settle down to a state where the frequency of an allele at one locus is independent of the frequency of an alle…
View article: Effect of Heterogeneity in Recombination Rate on Variation in Realised Relationship
Effect of Heterogeneity in Recombination Rate on Variation in Realised Relationship Open
Individuals of specified pedigree relationship vary in the proportion of the genome they share identical by descent, i.e. in their realised or actual relationship. Basing predictions of the variance in realised relationship solely on the p…
View article: Contributions to quantitative genetic models by Yule and by Weinberg prior to Fisher 1918
Contributions to quantitative genetic models by Yule and by Weinberg prior to Fisher 1918 Open
This year we mark and celebrate the centenary of R. A. Fisher's 1918 (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Edin. 52: 393–433) paper on “The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance,” which has had a fundamental impact on t…
View article: “Conversion” of epistatic into additive genetic variance in finite populations and possible impact on long‐term selection response
“Conversion” of epistatic into additive genetic variance in finite populations and possible impact on long‐term selection response Open
Summary The role of epistasis in understanding the genetic architecture and variation of quantitative traits and its role, if any, in artificial selection and livestock improvement more generally has a long and sometimes controversial hist…
View article: Is Continued Genetic Improvement of Livestock Sustainable?
Is Continued Genetic Improvement of Livestock Sustainable? Open
Large genetic improvements in the quantitative traits of growth, production, and efficiency of farmed livestock have been made over recent decades, and by introduction of genomic technology these are being enhanced. Such continued improvem…
View article: Heritable Environmental Variance Causes Nonlinear Relationships Between Traits: Application to Birth Weight and Stillbirth of Pigs
Heritable Environmental Variance Causes Nonlinear Relationships Between Traits: Application to Birth Weight and Stillbirth of Pigs Open
There is recent evidence from laboratory experiments and analysis of livestock populations that not only the phenotype itself, but also its environmental variance, is under genetic control. Little is known about the relationships between t…