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Pedigree-free animal models: the relatedness matrix reloaded.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Mar 2008
Frentiu Francesca D, Clegg Sonya M, Chittock John, Burke Terry, Blows Mark W, Owens Ian P F
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Animal models typically require a known genetic pedigree to estimate quantitative genetic parameters. Here we test whether animal models can alternatively be based on estimates of relatedness derived entirely from molecular marker data. Our case study is the morphology of a wild bird population, for which we report estimates of the genetic variance-covariance matrices (G) of six morphological traits using three...
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