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Preface Introduction Chapters 1-4: Introduce quantitative genetics and provide review material for Mendelian genetics, population genetics, and statistics Chapters 5-8: Define genetic effects and genetic variances and introduce statistical tools to estimate the effects and variances Chapters 9-12: Introduce genetic relatedness between relatives and describe how to use the genetic relatedness to estimate heritability of a quantitative trait Chapters 13-17: Introduce the concept of artificial selection and describe various ways to perform artificial selection for maximum genetic gain Chapters 18-20: Introduce advanced quantitative genetics that incorporates molecular data, i.e., genetic mapping for quantitative trait loci Appendix of Tables and Methods GlossaryDefinitions References for Further Reading Index
