Complex trait architecture: The pleiotropic model revisited

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  North, T L ^a   Beaumont, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84925355519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09351     Document Type: Article

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