Genetic correlations between traits determine the multivariate response to selection in the short term, and thereby play a causal role in evolutionary change. While individual studies have documented
The rows show the effect of the triplet when increasing numbers of loci are taken into account. The first row (k = 1; only the primary locus) gives the summation of the marginal effects of the three l
AD, DA DD: additive x dominant, dominant x additive, dominant x dominant interactions, respectively. PV(AD), PV (DA) and PV (DD)%: the contribution of, respectively, the AD, DA and DD interaction.
