A multi-marker association method for genome-wide association studies without the need for population structure correction

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Klasen, Jonas R ^a   Barbez, Elke ^b   Meier, Lukas ^c   Meinshausen, Nicolai ^c   Bühlmann, Peter ^c   Koornneef, Maarten ^a   Busch, Wolfgang ^b   Schneeberger, Korbinian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RODENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PLANT MODEL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; ROOT GROWTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOME, PLANT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; LINEAR MODELS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84994888508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13299     Document Type: Article

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