Bezrukov V F
Genetika. 1989 Jul;25(7):1310-9.
The relationships of heterozygosity with the mean and variance of quantitative character were considered under neutrality, additivity and overdominance of polymorphic loci. Attention was drawn to dependence of the patterns of relationships on the number of polymorphic loci (which varied from 1 to 10) and on the type of polymorphic loci, both homogeneous (polymorphic loci are of the same type) and heterogeneous (polymorphic loci are of the two types) samples of 10 polymorphic loci and their combination. It is shown that increase in the number of polymorphic loci is accompanied with extension of the limits of corresponding relations, whereas the patterns of these relations depend on the type of connection of separate polymorphic locus with the quantitative character and on the ratio of different loci in the set of polymorphic loci. It is assumed that the relationship of heterozygosity with quantitative characters, displayed in the number of experimental works, may contain a component mediated by similar statistical effects. It is inferred that the discrepancy between different authors' experimental data on existence or lack of some relationships between multiplicative heterozygosity and morphological variability of quantitative characters can be explained by different types of relations of polymorphic loci to quantitative characters encountered in their works.