An EM algorithm for obtaining maximum likelihood estimates in the multi-phenotype variance components linkage model.

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In recent years variance components models have been developed for localising genes that contribute to human quantitative variation. In typical applications one assumes a multivariate normal model for phenotypes and estimates model parameters by maximum likelihood. For the joint analysis of several correlated phenotypes, however, finding the maximum likelihood estimates for an appropriate multivariate normal...

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