Recent developments in statistical methods for detecting genetic loci affecting phenotypic variability

<p>Abstract</p> <p/> <p>A number of recent works have introduced statistical methods for detecting genetic loci that affect phenotypic variability, which we refer to as variability-controlling quantitative trait loci (vQTL). These are genetic variants whose allelic state pred...

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Main Authors: Rönnegård Lars, Valdar William
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-07-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/13/63