Local phylogeny mapping of quantitative traits: Higher accuracy and better ranking than single-marker association in genomewide scans

Genetics

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 747-753

  Besenbacher, Søren ^a   Mailund, Thomas ^a   Schierup, Mikkel H ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENEALOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE;

EID: 62449203065     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.092643     Document Type: Article

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