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Benefits of Dominance over Additive Models for the Estimation of Average Effects in the Presence of Dominance.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 5 Oct 2017
Duenk Pascal, Calus Mario P L, Wientjes Yvonne C J, Bijma Piter
Abstract excerpt
In quantitative genetics, the average effect at a single locus can be estimated by an additive (A) model, or an additive plus dominance (AD) model. In the presence of dominance, the AD-model is expected to be more accurate, because the A-model falsely assumes that residuals are independent and identically distributed. Our objective was to investigate the accuracy of an estimated average effect ([Formula: see...
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