Increasing the efficiency of variance component quantitative trait loci analysis by using reduced-rank identity-by-descent matrices

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1935-1938

  Rönnegård, Lars ^a   Mischenko, Kateryna ^a,b   Holmgren, Sverker ^a   Carlborg, Örjan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME 1; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; GENETIC MARKERS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547132590     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.071977     Document Type: Article

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