Mixture models in quantitative genetics and applications to animal breeding
Finite mixture models are helpful for uncovering heterogeneity due to hidden structure; for example, unknown major genes. The first part of this article gives examples and reviews quantitative genetics issues of continuous characters having a finite mixture of Gaussian components. The partition of v...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
2007-07-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982007001000017 |