Estimation of number and size of QTL effects in forest tree traits

Tree Genetics and Genomes

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Hall, David ^a,b   Hallingbäck, Henrik R ^a   Wu, Harry X ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Association mapping; Linkage (QTL) mapping; Linkage disequilibrium; QTL number estimate; Size of QTL effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994750939     PISSN: 16142942     EISSN: 16142950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-016-1073-0     Document Type: Article

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