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Background information on non-additive genetic effects here.

History
Delve into the history of analyzing non-additive effects. Discuss how there's been a practice within academia/research to neglect non-additive genetic effects and to only consider additive ones.

Molecular Basis
Non-additive genetic effects come from different alleles interacting with each other. These effects include epistasis and genetic dominance.

Effects
Epistasis consists of interaction between multiple loci and their alleles. For example, multiple loci can interact to form new phenotypes or modify the effects of alleles at a different loci.

Genetic dominance accounts for the relationship between two alleles of the same gene. These alleles interact in such a way that the dominant allele will mask the phenotype of the recessive allele.

The article written by Hallander and Waldmann uses genetic models to explore how non-additive genetic variation impacts directional truncation selection on a trait. The article written by Palucci et. al discusses how non-additive genetic effects impact fertility traits in cattle.

Other effects...

Evolution
How non-additive genetic effects affects evolution and genetic variation in the long-run.

Future Applications
How can scientists look at non-additive genetic effects? What can they help us discern in studies?

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