Testing quantitative trait locus effects in genetic backcross studies with double recombination occurring

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Publié dans:Journal of applied statistics. - 1991. - 50(2023), 4 vom: 21., Seite 927-944
Auteur principal: Liu, Guanfu (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Hu, Zongliang
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2023
Accès à la collection:Journal of applied statistics
Sujets:Journal Article Double recombination limiting distribution location-scale distribution penalized likelihood ratio test quantitative trait locus
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Résumé:© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Testing the existence of quantitative trait locus (QTL) effects is an important task in QTL mapping studies. In this paper, we assume the phenotype distributions from a location-scale distribution family, and consider to test the QTL effects in both location and scale in the backcross studies with double recombination occurring. Without equal scale assumption, the log-likelihood function is unbounded, which leads to the traditional likelihood ratio test being invalid. To deal with this problem, we propose a penalized likelihood ratio test (PLRT) for testing the QTL effects. The null limiting distribution of the PLRT is shown to be a supremum of a chi-square process. As a complement, we also investigate the null limiting distribution of the likelihood ratio test for the case with equal scale assumption. The limiting distributions of the two tests under local alternatives are also studied. Simulation studies are performed to evaluate the asymptotic results and a real-data example is given for illustration
Description:Date Revised 18.03.2023
published: Electronic-eCollection
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:0266-4763
DOI:10.1080/02664763.2021.2001444