Probability-theoretic Investigations on Inheritance
Yûsaku Komatu · Proceedings of the Japan Academy · 1951
The inheritance phenomenon has found increasing application in various branches of biology and medicine.Its theoretical foundation, especially from probability-theoretic or statistical point of view, has together been attempted.Most of such studies has treated, however, the problems only separately corresponding to individual concrete cases.It is the purpose of this paper and its subsequent papers to investigate the phenomenon based upon a general mode of inheritance from probability-theoretic standpoint in detail and to develop a unified theory in a systematic manner.