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Chunk #16 — Arguments in favour of the infinitesimal model — The infinitesimal model is standard quantitative genetic theory

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Rare and common variants: twenty arguments.
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common alleles, and the fact is that there is nothing about GWAS findings that is inconsistent with the infinitesimal model of many variants of very small effect across the full allele frequency spectrum. This model has served applied quantitative geneticists as well as evolutionary biologists for close to a century, and in a sense can be regarded as the null model that needs to be disproved before it is abandoned.