Bayesian QTL mapping using skewed Student-t distributions.docVIP

Genet. Sel. Evol. 34(2002) 1–21 ?INRA, EDP Sciences, 2002 DOI: 10.1051/gse:2001001 1 Original article BayesianQTLmappingusingskewed Student-tdistributions PeterVON ROHRa,b,InaHOESCHELE a,? aDepartmentsofDairyScienceandStatistics, VirginiaPolytechnicInstituteandStateUniversity, Blacksburg,VA24061-0315,USA bInstituteofAnimalSciences,AnimalBreeding, SwissFederalInstituteofTechnology(ETH),Zurich,Switzerland (Received23April2001;accepted17September2001) Abstract– InmostQTLmappingstudies,phenotypesareassumedtofollownormaldistribu- tions.Deviationsfromthisassumptionmayleadtodetectionoffalsepositi