GCTA: A Tool for Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis

2010/12/17 by Jian Yang, S. Hong Lee, Sang Lee +2 · 9,422 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Computational biology #Computer science #Gene #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals #Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock #Genetic association #Genetics #Genome-wide association study #Heritability #Linkage disequilibrium #Missing heritability problem #Quantitative trait locus #Single-nucleotide polymorphism #Trait

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.11.011

published in The American Journal of Human Genetics 88(1), 76-82 (Elsevier BV)

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