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A genome-wide association study of seed protein and oil content in soybean.
BMC genomics - 2 Jan 2014
Hwang Eun-Young, Song Qijian, Jia Gaofeng, Specht James E, Hyten David L, Costa Jose, Cregan Perry B
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BACKGROUND: Association analysis is an alternative to conventional family-based methods to detect the location of gene(s) or quantitative trait loci (QTL) and provides relatively high resolution in terms of defining the genome position of a gene or QTL. Seed protein and oil concentration are quantitative traits which are determined by the interaction among many genes with small to moderate genetic effects and...
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