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Dwarf8 polymorphisms associate with variation in flowering time.
Nature genetics - 1 Jul 2001
Thornsberry J M, Goodman M M, Doebley J, Kresovich S, Nielsen D, Buckler E S
Abstract excerpt
Historically, association tests have been used extensively in medical genetics, but have had virtually no application in plant genetics. One obstacle to their application is the structured populations often found in crop plants, which may lead to nonfunctional, spurious associations. In this study, statistical methods to account for population structure were extended for use with quantitative variation and...
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