Nadiv: An R package to create relatedness matrices for estimating non-additive genetic variances in animal models

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 792-796

  Wolak, Matthew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance; Epistasis; Profile likelihood; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875242308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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