A few weeks ago I posted on how population bottlenecks can convert dominance variance into additive genetic variance. This is important because it is additive genetic variance that is relevant for population level directional selection upon quantitative characters. Now agnostic posts on how epistatic variance can be converted into to additive genetic variance.
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Given the expected frequency of a certain outcome of a replicate in an experiment, we can estimate the expected variance around that mean (either by deriving it or performing simulations).
I have stated before that additive genetic variance is the relevant component of variance when modeling the response to selection in relation to a quantitative trait.
I know I've posted on this topic before, but I thought I'd revisit it again.
Sorry for the light blogging everyone.