additive genetic variance
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additive genetic variance
(¦ad·ə·div jə¦ned·ik ′ver·ē·əns)
(genetics) That part of the genetic variance of a quantitative character attributed to the average effects of substituting one allele for another at a given locus or at the multiple loci governing a polygenic trait.
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