Models and Estimation of Genetic Effects

• Main Author: Rong-Cai Yang (auth)
• Other Authors: Jose M. Alvarez-Castro (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); simulation studies; Host-Pathogen Interactions; statistical estimation; Genetic architecture; mathematical modelling; imprinting; gene-by-environment interactions; gene mapping; Epistasis; Genetic Effects
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Ronald Fisher needed to develop elaborate models of genetic effects in order to set the foundations of Quantitative Genetics in his 1918 paper "The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance". Since then, many significant implementations have been made to mod...