Using known QTLs to detect directional epistatic interactions

Genetics Research

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-48

  Slatkin, Montgomery ^a   Kirkpatrick, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SAMPLE SIZE;

ALLELES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84857592355     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672312000043     Document Type: Article

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