Genetic mapping of allometric scaling laws

Genetical Research

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 207-216

  Long, Fei ^a   Chen, Ying Qing ^b   Cheverud, James M ^c   Wu, Rongling ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC MODEL; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GROWTH; LINEAR MODELS; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745624827     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672306008172     Document Type: Article

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