Mapping quantitative trait loci for ordered categorical traits in four-way crosses.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2540.1998.00378.x

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Mapping quantitative trait loci for ordered categorical traits in four-way crosses.

Heredity - 1 Aug 1998

Rao S, Xu S

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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...

Topics

Animals
Chromosome Mapping
Crosses, Genetic
Female
Genetic Markers
Genotype
Likelihood Functions
Male
Models, Genetic
Monte Carlo Method
Plants
Probability
Quantitative Trait, Heritable

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