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A comparison of statistical methods for genomic selection in a mice population.
BMC genetics - 8 Nov 2012
Neves Haroldo H R, Carvalheiro Roberto, Queiroz Sandra A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The availability of high-density panels of SNP markers has opened new perspectives for marker-assisted selection strategies, such that genotypes for these markers are used to predict the genetic merit of selection candidates. Because the number of markers is often much larger than the number of phenotypes, marker effect estimation is not a trivial task. The objective of this research was to compare...
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