The Statistics of Gene Mapping

• Main Authors: Siegmund, David (Author), Yakir, Benjamin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Statistics for Biology and Health,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Computer simulation.; Bioinformatics.; Animal genetics.; Biomathematics.; Statistics.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Simulation and Modeling.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Genetics and Population Dynamics.

Gene mapping is used in experimental genetics to improve the hardiness or productivity of animals or plants of agricultural value, to explore basic mechanisms of inheritance, or to study animal models of human inheritance. In human populations it is used as a first step to identify genes associated...