Predicting adaptive phenotypes from multilocus genotypes in sitka spruce (picea sitchensis) using random forest

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1085-1093

  Holliday, Jason A ^a   Wang, Tongli ^b   Aitken, Sally ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Association; Cold hardiness; Epistasis; GenPred; Mapping; Phenology; Random Forest; Resources; Shared data

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPRUCE; TREE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CLIMATE; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PHENOTYPE; PICEA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TREES;

EID: 84883172296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.002733     Document Type: Article

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