An empirical bayes method for updating inferences in analysis of quantitative trait loci using information from related genome scans

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2283-2296

  Zhang, Kui ^a   Wiener, Howard ^a   Beasley, Mark ^a   George, Varghese ^b   Amos, Christopher I ^c   Allison, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIMULATION;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 33747851973     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.057448     Document Type: Article

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