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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Sirs It is common practice to name a particular phenomenon after the person who first discovered it. This can sometimes provide useful and

easily remembered shorthand for discussion of the phenomenon. But sometimes it is difficult to know whose name to use. An interesting example is provided by the phenomenon that, when

undertaking whole- or partial-genome scans, estimates of significant quantitative trait loci (QTL) effects are biased upwards. This has come to be known as `the Beavis effect' (for

example, see Refs 1,2) on the basis of a paper in the proceedings of a conference3, in which William D. Beavis showed the degree of bias that is expected for several situations. This is a

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