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Our knowledge of modifying genes in a more general sense of the 

 word may be said to date back to Cu^not's investigation of the intensi- 

 fying and diluting genes influencing the effect of other color factors in 

 mice (1907). The perception of their widespread occurrence and of 



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their importance grew gradually out of the discussion on the multiple- 

 factor view, inaugurated by the investigations of Nilson-Ehle (1909) 

 and East (1910, 1911). East gives (1912) a very clear discussion of the 

 "modifying factors," and in recent years they play the foremost part 

 in all publications dealing with the question of the effect of selection. 



