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Searching for phenotypic causal networks involving complex traits: an application to European quail.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 2 Nov 2011
Valente Bruno D, Rosa Guilherme J M, Silva Martinho A, Teixeira Rafael B, Torres Robledo A
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BACKGROUND: Structural equation models (SEM) are used to model multiple traits and the casual links among them. The number of different causal structures that can be used to fit a SEM is typically very large, even when only a few traits are studied. In recent applications of SEM in quantitative genetics mixed model settings, causal structures were pre-selected based on prior beliefs alone. Alternatively, there...
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