Gregor Mendel’s legacy in quantitative genetics

Abstract

Gregor Mendel’s discovery of the laws of segregation and independent assortment and his inference of the existence of non-mendelian interactions between loci remain at the heart of today’s explorations of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits. Mendel’s discovery of the laws of segregation and independent assortment and inference of the existence of non-Mendelian interactions between loci are at the heart of modern explorations of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits.