Heterogeneity of genetic architecture of body size traits in a free-living population

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1810-1830

  Bérénos, Camillo ^a   Ellis, Philip A ^a   Pilkington, Jill G ^a   Lee, S Hong ^b   Gratten, Jake ^b   Pemberton, Josephine M ^a  

^a Institute for Evolutionary Biology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

admixture; body size; genetic architecture; genome partitioning; genome wide association; genomics

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SHEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SHEEP;

EID: 84926442187     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13146     Document Type: Article

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