… The present study is based on a vast elite maize breeding population with 930 individuals,
which were intensively phenotyped for grain yield and grain moisture. Heritability on a plot …

… maize breeding sector—that is, breeding within a family within a heterotic pattern. Specifically
we examine the extent and nature of genetic variation present in the elite breeding cross …

… However, with the recent discovery of 1.6 million SNPs by the maize … –association panel
known as the nested association mapping (NAM) population 8 , effective GWAS in maize have …

… In particular, the presence of five recently described pre long-non-coding RNAs in the region
identified by our association mapping (P <0.05; Fig. 8c) urges to evaluate their role in maize …

… in maize, as the resolution can be controlled by choice of association mapping panel: more
elite … For example, significant marker–trait associations can be identified using elite lines with …

… the prediction accuracy of genomic breeding values through cross validation. … populations
from a half-diallel mating design with 788 testcross progenies from an elite maize breeding …

… usefulness of modern elite breeding populations for locating loci … associations, and (3) to
estimate the robustness of the results by comparing associated regions in different populations …

… mapping to test effects associated with traits, and the significant effects identified by empirical
Bayesian were used to estimate genetic effects for the missing F 1 s with elite … elite maize …

… inbred lines [4], but can be as high as 100 kb for commercial elite inbred lines [12]. LD decay
can also vary considerably from locus to locus. For example, significant LD was observed …

… In the present study, 367 elite maize inbred lines… population structure, relative kinship, and
LD decay of the accessions, to evaluate whether this panel is suitable for association mapping …