Influence of outliers on QTL mapping for complex traits

Journal of Zhejiang University: Science B

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 931-937

  Hayat, Yousaf ^a,b   Yang, Jian ^a   Xu, Hai Ming ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Complex trait; Outliers and influential observations; QTL mapping

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC MODEL; HERITABILITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 57549095396     PISSN: 16731581     EISSN: 18621783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1631/jzus.B0820045     Document Type: Article

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