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Evolutionary genetics

Fisher's proposal that wild-type alleles became dominant because selection favored modifier genes that hide recurrent harmful mutations.

In evolutionary genetics, Fisher's theory of dominance refers to fisher's proposal that wild-type alleles became dominant because selection favored modifier genes that hide recurrent harmful mutations. This meaning comes from Fisher (1928) in The American Naturalist.[1]

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References

Fisher, R. A. (1928). The Possible Modification of the Response of the Wild Type to Recurrent Mutations. The American Naturalist, 62(679), 115-126. https://doi.org/10.1086/280193

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