Bayes factors for detection of Quantitative Trait Loci.docVIP

Genet. Sel. Evol. 33(2001) 133–152 ?INRA, EDP Sciences, 2001 133 Original article Bayesfactorsfordetection ofQuantitativeTraitLoci LuisVARONAa,?,LuisAlbertoGARCíA-CORTéSb, MiguelPéREZ-ENCISOa aAreadeProduccióAnimal,CentreUdL-IRTA,c/RoviraRoure177, 25198Lleida,Spain bUnidaddeGenéticaCuantitativayMejoraAnimal, UniversidaddeZaragoza,50013Zaragoza,Spain (Received8November1999;accepted24October2000) Abstract– Afundamentalissueinquantitativetraitlocus(QTL)mappingistodeterminethe plausibilityof the presence of a QTL at a given genome location. Bayesiananalysis offers anattractivewayoftestingalterna