Nonparametric functional mapping of quantitative trait loci

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-39

  Yang, Jie ^a   Wu, Rongling ^b   Casella, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

B splines; Maximum likelihood; Mixed model

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

B SPLINES; CONTROL DYNAMIC; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; FUNCTIONAL MAPPING; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; MIXED MODELING; NONPARAMETRICS; POWER; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

INTERPOLATION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MAPPING METHOD; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MODEL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICS;

EID: 62949157422     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01063.x     Document Type: Article

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