Accounting for genetic interactions improves modeling of individual quantitative trait phenotypes in yeast

Nature Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 497-503

  Forsberg, Simon K G ^a   Bloom, Joshua S ^b,c   Sadhu, Meru J ^b,c   Kruglyak, Leonid ^b,c   Carlborg, Örjan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPISTASIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YEAST; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS;

EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC; YEASTS;

EID: 85014072811     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3800     Document Type: Article

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