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Exploring causal networks of bovine milk fatty acids in a multivariate mixed model context.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 17 Jan 2014
Bouwman Aniek C, Valente Bruno D, Janss Luc L G, Bovenhuis Henk, Rosa Guilherme J M
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BACKGROUND: Knowledge regarding causal relationships among traits is important to understand complex biological systems. Structural equation models (SEM) can be used to quantify the causal relations between traits, which allow prediction of outcomes to interventions applied to such a network. Such models are fitted conditionally on a causal structure among traits, represented by a directed acyclic graph and an...
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