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A first-generation haplotype map of maize.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 20 Nov 2009
Gore Michael A, Chia Jer-Ming, Elshire Robert J, Sun Qi, Ersoz Elhan S, Hurwitz Bonnie L, Peiffer Jason A, McMullen Michael D, Grills George S, Ross-Ibarra Jeffrey, Ware Doreen H, Buckler Edward S
Abstract excerpt
Maize is an important crop species of high genetic diversity. We identified and genotyped several million sequence polymorphisms among 27 diverse maize inbred lines and discovered that the genome was characterized by highly divergent haplotypes and showed 10- to 30-fold variation in recombination rates. Most chromosomes have pericentromeric regions with highly suppressed recombination that appear to have...
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