Moments, cumulants, and polygenic dynamics

DOI10.1007/BF00160336zbMath0760.92014WikidataQ52464772 ScholiaQ52464772MaRDI QIDQ1180359

Reinhard Bürger

Publication date: 27 June 1992

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionsselectionmutationquantitative traitbinomial theoremrandom matingexplicit expressionsHardy-Weinberg proportionsadditive gene actionallelic frequency distributionchange of cumulantsdeterministic continuous-time modelevolution of polygenic traitsglobal linkage equilibriumlinear increasing fitnessmarginal fitness values of allelesquadratically deviating fitnessTaylor series expansion of phenotypic fitness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10)

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