International Journal of Plant Genomics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 286561, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/286561
Review Article

Statistical Methods for Mapping Multiple QTL

1Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
2Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
3Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

Received 17 December 2007; Accepted 29 April 2008

Academic Editor: Shizhong Xu

Copyright © 2008 Wei Zou and Zhao-Bang Zeng. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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