Recent developments in statistical methods for detecting genetic loci affecting phenotypic variability

BMC Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rönnegård, Lars ^a,b   Valdar, William ^c  

^a DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIABILITY CONTROLLING QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84868685305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-13-63     Document Type: Letter

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