Mark W. Blows

Maintenance of quantitative genetic variance in complex, multi-trait phenotypes: The contribution of rare, large effect variants in two Drosophila species

The paper uses Bayesian Sparse Factor Genetic modelling to analyze gene expression traits in two Drosophila species, finding that most heritable trait covariation is due to a few extreme genotypes, suggesting the House of Cards model applies to co-expression phenotypes.

Causes of variability in estimates of mutational variance from mutation accumulation experiments

This study investigates variability in mutational variance estimates from mutation accumulation experiments, finding that sampling error and environmental factors contribute significantly to differences among estimates.