Generalized Linear Model for Interval Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci

Overview

Journal Theor Appl Genet

Publisher Springer

Specialty Genetics

Date 2010 Feb 25

PMID 20180093

Citations 3

Authors

Shizhong Xu

Zhiqiu Hu

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Abstract

We developed a generalized linear model of QTL mapping for discrete traits in line crossing experiments. Parameter estimation was achieved using two different algorithms, a mixture model-based EM (expectation-maximization) algorithm and a GEE (generalized estimating equation) algorithm under a heterogeneous residual variance model. The methods were developed using ordinal data, binary data, binomial data and Poisson data as examples. Applications of the methods to simulated as well as real data are presented. The two different algorithms were compared in the data analyses. In most situations, the two algorithms were indistinguishable, but when large QTL are located in large marker intervals, the mixture model-based EM algorithm can fail to converge to the correct solutions. Both algorithms were coded in C++ and interfaced with SAS as a user-defined SAS procedure called PROC QTL.

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