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Sex-linkage and sex-limitation in quantitative inheritance I. Random mating populations
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Sex-linkage and sex-limitation in quantitative inheritance I. Random mating populations

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Killick, R. Sex-linkage and sex-limitation in quantitative inheritance I. Random mating populations. Heredity 27, 175–188 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1971.83

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