… Association mapping identifies quantitative trait loci (QTLs) by … General understanding of
association mapping has … in assembling various association-mapping populations and initiating …

… association between marker and QTL alleles and processes that selectively reduce that
association as … parents to map QTL, we create in the F1 hybrid complete association between all …

… association mapping (NAM) population. NAM was constructed to enable high power and high
resolution through joint linkage-association … The genetic structure of the NAM population is …

The use, in association studies, of the forthcoming dense genomewide collection of single-…
A serious problem with association mapping is that population structure can lead to spurious …

… The negative aspects arising from biparental and association mapping populations have
also been addressed by Multiparent Advanced Generation InterCross (MAGIC) populations (…

… linkage–association panel known as the nested association mapping (NAM) population 8 ,
… (i) Population structure is controlled by the NAM design itself. By reshuffling the genomes of …

… , reduce linkage disequilibrium, and control population structure through design (Rafalski,
2010). Nested association mapping populations are developed by crossing multiple diverse …

… Nested association mapping (NAM) offers power to resolve complex, quantitative traits to
their causal loci. The maize NAM population, consisting of 5,000 recombinant inbred lines (RILs…

… data set of 25 nested association mapping populations in maize (Zea mays). … Population
information and genomic coverage regarding the 25 nested association mapping populations …

… confounds association mapping of … association mapping (NAM) population using 10 diverse
global lines crossed with an elite reference line RTx430. We characterized the population of …