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Mapping quantitative trait loci for ordered categorical traits in four-way crosses.
Heredity - 1 Aug 1998
Rao S, Xu S
Abstract excerpt
Many quantitative traits of economical importance are ordinal in nature. Although methods of mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for continuous quantitative characters are well developed, such methods for ordinal characters are generally lacking. In this paper, we develop a method based on the framework of a generalized linear model using four-way cross populations. The method estimates and tests the average...
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