β-composite Interval Mapping for robust QTL analysis.

ABSTRACT: Interval mapping approaches have been playing significant role for quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping to discover genetic architecture of diseases or traits with molecular markers. Composite interval mapping (CIM) is one of the superior approaches of the interval mapping for discovering both linked and unlinked putative QTL positions. However, estimators of this approach are not robust against phenotypic outliers. As a result, it fails to detect true QTL positions in presence of outliers. In this study, we investigated the performance of β-Composite Interval Mapping (BetaCIM) for detecting both linked and unlinked important QTLs positions from the robustness points of views. Performance of this approach depends on the value of tuning parameter β. It reduces to the classical CIM approac

SUBMITTER: Monir MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6277098 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature