In addition, a subset of traits exhibits clinal variation along the eastern Mediterranean coast, potentially indicating selection gradients at the geographic transition from northern Africa to Anatolia.
Notably, GEMOT does not construct a causal network but only predicts a subset of traits sharing the same mechanism.
Such pleiotropy, which confined the action of mutations to only a subset of traits, better tuned phenotypes in challenging environments.
However, the simulations demonstrated that the method was able to identify QTL present only in a subset of traits.
Examples of the wood property development by time for a subset of traits are presented in Figure 1.
The results make a strong case for the genotyping and recording of CB animals, at least for a subset of traits where genetic correlations are away from 1.
To address these issues we propose variable selection (Rencher 1993, 1998) as a strategy to choose a subset of traits for multitrait analysis.
Analyses for a subset of traits suggest a minor increase in heritability for models in which cross-type was purposely excluded from animal models relative to a model in which it was included as a fixed effect (data not shown).
To date, the beef industry focus has been on subsets of markers chosen to be informative for a subset of traits that are believed to have the most economic relevance and greatest market opportunity.
Within this network, there exists several subnetworks involving a subset of traits, and furthermore, the large subnetwork on the left-hand side of Figure 1 contains two subgroups of densely connected traits with thick edges.
