These are (incomplete) course notes about generalised linear mixed models (GLMM).
Special emphasis is placed on understanding the underlying structure of a GLMM in order to …

When traits cause variation in fitness, the distribution of phenotype, weighted by fitness,
necessarily changes. The degree to which traits cause fitness variation is therefore of central …

Nowadays bioinformaticians and geneticists are faced with myriad high-throughput data
usually presenting the characteristics of uncertainty, high dimensionality and large …

Background Knowledge regarding causal relationships among traits is important to
understand complex biological systems. Structural equation models (SEM) can be used to …

This work presents a model for the joint analysis of a binomial and a Gaussian trait using a
recursive parametrization that leads to a computationally efficient implementation. The …

The aim of the present study was to infer daily genetic relationships between the selected
claw disorders digital dermatitis, sole ulcer (SU), and interdigital hyperplasia (IH) and protein …

Fully recursive model (RM) is equivalent to a multiple-trait model (MTM). Structural
coefficients and other RM parameters can be derived from MTM parameters given a known …

One of the main goals of selection schemes in beef cattle populations is to increase carcass
weight at slaughter. Live weights at different growth stages are frequently used as selection …

Modern evolutionary genetics studies evolution as a population-level statistical trend,
abstracting away concrete causal interactions among individual organisms. Crucial to this …

Production gains achieved through conventional breeding methods are gradually declining.
Producing more food requires the development and implementation of novel new and …