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A note on the analysis of reciprocal effects in diallel crosses

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Maternal effects and sex-linkage give rise to differences between reciprocal crosses. In diallel-cross analyses, the presence of these effects will cause biases in the estimates of the genetical components of the variation. A method of analysis is described in which this bias is removed. Also, a worked example demonstrates the analysis for a case where males only are available.

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  1. Institut für Humangenetik und Anthropologie, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, D-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

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Crusio, W.E. A note on the analysis of reciprocal effects in diallel crosses. J. Genet. 66, 177–185 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02927711

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