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On measures of association among genetic variables.
Animal genetics - 1 Jul 2012
Gianola Daniel, Manfredi Eduardo, Simianer Henner
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Systems involving many variables are important in population and quantitative genetics, for example, in multi-trait prediction of breeding values and in exploration of multi-locus associations. We studied departures of the joint distribution of sets of genetic variables from independence. New measures of association based on notions of statistical distance between distributions are presented. These are more...
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