Quantitative genetics, or the genetics of complex traits, is the study of those characters which
are not affected by the action of just a few major genes. Its basis is in statistical models and …

Environmental variation (VE) in a quantitative trait–variation in phenotype that cannot be
explained by genetic variation or identifiable genetic differences–can be regarded as being …

Whole-genome enabled prediction of complex traits has received enormous attention in
animal and plant breeding and is making inroads into human and even Drosophila genetics …

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces regression procedures for prediction of total genetic
value for quantitative traits, which make use of phenotypic and genomic data …

Quantitative genetics has primarily focused on describing genetic effects on trait means and
largely ignored the effect of alternative alleles on trait variability, potentially missing an …

Multivariate models are of great importance in theoretical and applied quantitative genetics.
We extend quantitative genetic theory to accommodate situations in which there is linear …

Background Sleep is a highly conserved behavior, yet its duration and pattern vary
extensively among species and between individuals within species. The genetic basis of …

Generating breeding programmes that effectively improve farmed fish performance across
multiple environments and make fish more uniform within production environments would …

Abstract Background Hamiltonian Monte Carlo is one of the algorithms of the Markov chain
Monte Carlo method that uses Hamiltonian dynamics to propose samples that follow a target …

Traditional methods for detecting genes that affect complex diseases in humans or animal
models, milk production in livestock, or other traits of interest, have asked whether variation …