Detecting dominant QTL with variance component analysis in simulated pedigrees

Genetics Research

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 363-374

  Rowe, Suzanne J ^a,b   Ricardo, Pong Wong ^a   Haley, Christopher S ^a,c   Knott, Sara A ^b   De Koning, Dirk Jan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY SIZE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; VARIANCE COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); PEDIGREE; POULTRY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

SUIDAE;

EID: 53949102652     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672308009336     Document Type: Article

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