Nonparametric modeling of longitudinal covariance structure in functional mapping of quantitative trait loci

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1068-1077

  Yap, John Stephen ^a   Fan, Jianqing ^b   Wu, Rongling ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance estimation; Functional mapping; Longitudinal data; Multivariate normal mixture; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

MAPPING;

COVARIANCE ESTIMATION; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; FUNCTIONAL MAPPING; GENETIC REGULATION; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MULTIVARIATE NORMAL; MULTIVARIATE NORMAL MIXTURE; NON-PARAMETRIC MODEL; NORMAL MIXTURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; GENOME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; DECOMPOSITION; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 70450278707     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01222.x     Document Type: Article

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