For each individual in a human hybrid population there is a proportion μ i, whose value is usually unknown, that expresses the fraction of his genes deriving from a specified parental population. The ...

Association mapping has become a widely applied genomic approach to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) and dissect the genetic architecture of complex traits. However, approaches to assess the ...

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Recently, Yang et al. 43 showed (i) that 45% of the phenotypic variance (roughly half of the heritability) of human height can be explained by considering all single-nucleotide polymorphism SNPs ...