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- Subject: Re: genetic correlations
- Message-ID: <9211181507.AA09638@net.bio.net>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:04:00 GMT
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- >From: Draye@GENA.UCL.AC.BE
- >Subject: genetic correlations
- >Now, suppose that you derive your genetic correlations from mean genotypic
- >values of strains of Drosophila melanogaster from different geographic origins.
- >If you find a significative correlation by this way, does it implie that the
- >same correlation should appear inside each of the populations?
-
- Of course not. The correlation across populations can easily be
- of opposite sign to the correlation within population. Actually
- the original message is ambiguous. If several lines per
- population were measured, then the resulting genetic correlation
- contains both among- and within-population elements. A simple
- nested analysis of covariance can be used to tease appart the
- two factors.
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