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A robust multiple-locus method for quantitative trait locus analysis of non-normally distributed multiple traits.
Heredity - 1 Dec 2015
Li Z, Möttönen J, Sillanpää M J
Abstract excerpt
Linear regression-based quantitative trait loci/association mapping methods such as least squares commonly assume normality of residuals. In genetics studies of plants or animals, some quantitative traits may not follow normal distribution because the data include outlying observations or data that are collected from multiple sources, and in such cases the normal regression methods may lose some statistical power...
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