Journal
HEREDITY
Volume 101, Issue 1, Pages 48-52Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2008.25
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QTL mapping; quantitative trait; statistical power
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We developed a simple method for calculating the statistical power for detecting a QTL located in an interval flanked by two markers. The statistical method for QTL detection is assumed to be the Haley and Knott's simple regression method of interval mapping. This method allows us to answer one of the fundamental questions in designing a QTL mapping experiment: What is the minimum marker density required to detect a QTL explaining a certain heritable proportion of the phenotypic variance (denoted by h(2)) with a power gamma under a Type I error alpha in an F-2 or other mating designs with a sample size n? Computing the statistical power only requires the ability to evaluate a non-central F-distribution function and the inverse function of this distribution.
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