QTL mapping using a memetic algorithm with modifications of BIC as fitness function

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Frommlet, Florian ^a   Ljubic, Ivana ^b   Arnardóttir, Helga Björk ^c   Bogdan, Malgorzata ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Memetic algorithm; Model selection; Modifications of BIC; Posterior probability; QTL mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FITNESS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC SELECTION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866467257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1544-6115.1793     Document Type: Article

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