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6538860
TITLE
Evidence for polygenic epistatic interactions in man?
ABSTRACT
Studies of multifactorial inheritance in man have ignored nonadditive gene action or attributed it entirely to dominance. Reanalyses of dermatoglyphic data on monozygotic and dizygotic twins, siblings and parents and offspring suggest that a substantial proportion of variation in total finger pattern intensity is due to epistatic interactions between additive genetic deviations, not dominance. Bootstrapping and power simulations support this interpretation of the data. We believe this is the strongest evidence so far for polygenic epistasis in man.
DATE PUBLISHED
1984 Apr
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1984/04/01
medline 1984/04/01 00:01
entrez 1984/04/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Heath AC Heath A C AC
Martin NG Martin N G NG
Eaves LJ Eaves L J LJ
Loesch D Loesch D D
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 106
ISSUE: 4
TITLE: Genetics
ISOABBREVIATION: Genetics
YEAR: 1984
MONTH: Apr
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0016-6731
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Genetics
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 0016-6731
NLMUNIQUEID: 0374636
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
REFTYPE REFSOURCE REFPMID NOTE
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GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
GM30250 NIGMS NIH HHS United States
HL28922 NHLBI NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Dermatoglyphics
Epistasis, Genetic
Female
Humans
Models, Biological
Pregnancy
Twins
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's
OTHERID SOURCE
PMC1202301 NLM