Inferring genetic values for quantitative traits non-parametrically

Genetics Research

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 525-540

  Gianola, Daniel ^a,b,c,d   de los Campos, Gustavo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PLANT BREEDING; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 63449113494     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672308009890     Document Type: Article

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