Effect of family relatedness on characteristics of estimated IBD probabilities in relation to precision of QTL estimates

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A random QTL effects model uses a function of probabilities that two alleles in the same or in different animals at a particular genomic position are identical by descent (IBD). Estimates of such IBD probabilities and therefore, mode...

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Main Authors: Hernández-Sánchez Jules, Freyer Gertraude, Vukasinovic Natascha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-09-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/11/85