1.Department of Statistics,University of Florida,Gainesville,USA;2.Department of Statistics,Nankai University,Tianjin,P. R. China
Abstract:
Background
Earlier methods for detecting major genes responsible for a quantitative trait rely critically upon a well-structured pedigree in which the segregation pattern of genes exactly follow Mendelian inheritance laws. However, for many outcrossing species, such pedigrees are not available and genes also display population properties.