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QTL linkage analysis of connected populations using ancestral marker and pedigree information.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Apr 2012
Bink Marco C A M, Totir L Radu, ter Braak Cajo J F, Winkler Christopher R, Boer Martin P, Smith Oscar S
Abstract excerpt
The common assumption in quantitative trait locus (QTL) linkage mapping studies that parents of multiple connected populations are unrelated is unrealistic for many plant breeding programs. We remove this assumption and propose a Bayesian approach that clusters the alleles of the parents of the current mapping populations from locus-specific identity by descent (IBD) matrices that capture ancestral marker and...
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