Indirect genetic effects and the spread of infectious disease: Are we capturing the full heritable variation underlying disease prevalence?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lipschutz Powell, Debby ^a   Woolliams, John A ^a   Bijma, Piter ^b   Doeschl Wilson, Andrea B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; INDIRECT GENETIC EFFECT; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84863104142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039551     Document Type: Article

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