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General formulas for obtaining the MLEs and the asymptotic variance-covariance matrix in mapping quantitative trait loci when using the EM algorithm.
Biometrics - 1 Jun 1997
Kao C H, Zeng Z B
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We present in this paper general formulas for deriving the maximum likelihood estimates and the asymptotic variance-covariance matrix of the positions and effects of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in a finite normal mixture model when the EM algorithm is used for mapping QTLs. The general formulas are based on two matrices D and Q, where D is the genetic design matrix, characterizing the genetic effects of the...
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