Structural Variants Contribute to Phenotypic Variation in Maize.

Abstract excerpt

Comprehensively identifying the loci shaping trait variation has been challenging, in part because standard approaches often miss many types of genetic variants. Structural variants (SVs), especially transposable elements (TEs), are likely to affect phenotypic variation but we lack methods that can detect polymorphic SVs and TEs using short-read sequencing data. Here, we used a whole genome alignment between two...

Topics

• Zea mays
• Phenotype
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• DNA Transposable Elements
• Genotype
• Genome, Plant