Genome-wide Association Studies in Plants: the Missing Heritability is in the Field

Overview

Journal Genome Biol

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2011 Nov 1

PMID 22035733

Citations 230

Authors

Benjamin Brachi

Geoffrey P Morris

Justin O Borevitz

Affiliations

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Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been even more successful in plants than in humans. Mapping approaches can be extended to dissect adaptive genetic variation from structured background variation in an ecological context.

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