Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents
About the Document
License Terms
Reporting Bugs
Obtaining and Extracting QMS2
Requirements for using QMS2

This is a SAS(r) Software macro package for performing multipoint QTL mapping using the DeFries-Fulker multiple regression approach to unselected and selected samples (basic and augmented) [1] [2] [3], the Haseman-Elston approach [4], and the New Haseman-Elston approach [5].

About the Document

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Notes

[1]

DeFries, J. C., & Fulker, D. W. (1985). Multiple regression analysis of twin data. Behavior Genetics, 15, 467-473.

[2]

LaBuda, M. C., DeFries, J. C., & Fulker, D. W. (1986). Multiple regression analysis of twin data obtained from selected samples. Genetic Epidemiology, 3, 425-433.

[3]

DeFries, J. C., & Fulker, D. W. (1988). Multiple regression analysis of twin data: Etiology of deviant scores versus individual differences. Acta Geneticae Medicae et Gemellologiae, 37, 205-216.

[4]

Haseman, J. K., & Elston, R. C. (1972). The investigation of linkage between a quantitative trait and a marker locus. Behavior Genetics, 2, 3-19.

[5]

Haseman, J. K., & Elston, R. C. (in press). Haseman and Elston revisited. Genetic Epidemiology.