KEY TERMS

additive effect (A)

additive gene action

additive genetic variance

association mapping

breeding value

broad-sense heritability (H2)

candidate gene

categorical trait

complex inheritance

complex trait

congenic line

continuous trait

correlation

correlation coefficient

covariance

deviation

dominance effect (D)

dominant gene action

environmental variance

fine-map

frequency histogram

gene action

genetic architecture

genetic variance

genome-wide association (GWA or GWAS)

inbred line or strain

isogenic

mean

meristic trait

multifactorial hypothesis

narrow-sense heritability

nearly isogenic line

normal distribution

partial dominance

personal genomics

population

QTL mapping

quantitative genetics

quantitative trait

quantitative trait loci (QTL)

sample

selection differential (S)

selection response (R)

simple inheritance

standard deviation

threshold trait

variance