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What do artificial neural networks tell us about the genetic structure of populations? The example of European pig populations.
Genetics research - 1 Apr 2009
Nikolic Natacha, Park Young-Seuk, Sancristobal Magali, Lek Sovan, Chevalet Claude
Abstract excerpt
General and genetic statistical methods are commonly used to deal with microsatellite data (highly variable neutral genetic markers). In this paper, the self-organizing map (SOM) that belongs to the unsupervised artificial neural networks (ANNs) was applied to analyse the structure of 58 European and two Chinese pig populations (Sus scrofa) including commercial lines, local breeds and cosmopolitan breeds. Results...
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