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
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