Genes as Environment: Indirect Genetic Effects on Evolution, Agriculture, & Medicine
Videos of talks and discussions are now freely available for all viewers.
Symposium Snippets -- summaries of each day's talks are available on The AGA Blog.
Indirect genetic effects (IGE) are genetic effects of an individual on the trait values of other individuals in the same species. These effects are also known as social genetic effects and associative genetic effects. Although the concept first arose in the agricultural genetics literature in the 1960s, it did not receive much attention outside that community until the late 1990s. Since then, there has been considerable development of theoretical literature, which has emphasized that IGE provides a unifying framework for traditional quantitative genetics, maternal and paternal genetic effects, inclusive fitness, and multilevel selection.
AGA President: Kimberly Hughes