The curse of the missing heritability

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Shen, Xia ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Genomic kinship; Intercross; Linkage analysis; Missing heritability; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890253440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00225     Document Type: Article

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