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Multiplicative effects and the logarithmic transformation in the analysis of balanced multi-point linkage tests
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Multiplicative effects and the logarithmic transformation in the analysis of balanced multi-point linkage tests

  • Walter F Bodmer1 

Heredity volume 13, pages 157–164 (1959)Cite this article

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Bodmer, W. Multiplicative effects and the logarithmic transformation in the analysis of balanced multi-point linkage tests. Heredity 13, 157–164 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1959.19

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