A non-stationary model for functional mapping of complex traits

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2469-2477

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Chen, Ying Q ^a   Casella, George ^a   Cheverud, James M ^b   Wu, Rongling ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY MASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 19544374920     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti382     Document Type: Article

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