An Arabidopsis example of association mapping in structured samples

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 0071-0082

  Zhao, Keyan ^a   Aranzana, María José ^a   Kim, Sung ^a   Lister, Clare ^b   Shindo, Chikako ^b   Tang, Chunlao ^a   Toomajian, Christopher ^a   Zheng, Honggang ^a   Dean, Caroline ^b   Marjoram, Paul ^c   Nordborg, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GENOME, PLANT; HAPLOTYPES; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846466407     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030004     Document Type: Article

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