The genetic analysis of tolerance to infections: A review

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Kause, Antti ^a   Ødegård, Jørgen ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NOFIMA   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cure model; Genotype by environment interaction; Mixture model; Quantitative genetics; Random regression; Resistance; Statistical methods; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876094537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00262     Document Type: Article

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