?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=AN+INTRODUCTION+TO+QUANTITATIVE+GENETICS&rft.creator=Crusio%2C+WIm+E.&rft.subject=Behavioral+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Evolution&rft.description=This+chapter+provides+a+brief+overview+of+quantitative-genetic+theory.+Quantitative-genetics+provides+important+tools+to+help+elucidate+the+genetic+underpinnings+of+behavioral+and+neural+phenotypes.+This+information+can+then+provide+substantial+insights+into+the+previous+evolutionary+history+of+a+phenotype%2C+as+well+as+into+brain-behavior+relationships.+The+most+often+employed+crossbreeding+designs+are+the+classical+Mendelian+cross+and+the+diallel+cross.+The+information+rendered+by+the+former+is+limited+to+the+two+parental+strains+used+and+cannot+be+broadly+generalized.+The+principal+usefulness+of+this+design+is+for+testing+whether+a+given+phenotype+is+influenced+by+either+one+gene+or+by+more+genes.+The+diallel+cross+renders+more+generalizable+information%2C+the+more+so+if+many+different+strains+are+used%2C+such+as+estimates+of+genetic+correlations.+To+estimate+the+latter%2C+correlations+between+inbred+strain+means+may+provide+a+helpful+shortcut.+Some+commonly+encountered+mistakes+in+the+interpretation+of+the+results+of+quantitative-genetic+studies+are+presented+and+explained.&rft.publisher=CRC+Press+LLC%2C+Boca+Raton%2C+FL%2C+USA&rft.contributor=Jones%2C+Byron+C.&rft.contributor=Morm%C3%A8de%2C+Pierre&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F67%2F1%2FQUANTGEN.htm&rft.identifier=++Crusio%2C+WIm+E.++(1998)+AN+INTRODUCTION+TO+QUANTITATIVE+GENETICS.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F67%2F