Genome-wide association studies in plants: the missing heritability is in the field

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2011-10-28

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Brachi, Benjamin
Morris, Geoffrey P
Borevitz, Justin O

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BioMed Central

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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been even more successful in plants than in humans. Mapping approaches can be extended to dissect adaptive genetic variation from structured background variation in an ecological context.

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adaptation, biological, alleles, arabidopsis, chromosome mapping, genes, plant, genotype, oryza sativa, phenotype, selection, genetic, zea mays, genetic association studies, inheritance patterns, polymorphism, single nucleotide

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Genome Biology

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