On the quantitative genetics of mixture characters

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2247-2255

  Gianola, Daniel ^a,b,c   Heringstad, Bjorg ^b   Odegaard, Jorgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c Department of Animal Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC TRAIT; HERITABILITY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 33747870143     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.054197     Document Type: Article

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