Recognizing the enormous potential of DNA markers in plant breeding, many agricultural
research centers and plant breeding institutes have adopted the capacity for marker …

There is tremendous interest in using association mapping to identify genes responsible for
quantitative variation of complex traits with agricultural and evolutionary importance. Recent …

Motivation Accurate and dense linkage maps are useful in family-based linkage and
association studies, quantitative trait locus mapping, analysis of genome synteny and other …

The sequence of the mouse genome is a key informational tool for understanding the
contents of the human genome and a key experimental tool for biomedical research. Here …

Quantum computing holds substantial potential for applications in biology and medicine,
spanning from the simulation of biomolecules to machine learning methods for subtyping …

We investigated the genetic and statistical properties of the nested association mapping
(NAM) design currently being implemented in maize (26 diverse founders and 5000 distinct …

R estriction site a ssociated D NA (RAD) tags are a genome-wide representation of every
site of a particular restriction enzyme by short DNA tags. Most organisms segregate large …

▪ Abstract During the past decade, the molecular mechanisms underlying the mammalian
circadian clock have been defined. A core set of circadian clock genes common to most cells …

Interactions among loci or between genes and environmental factors make a substantial
contribution to variation in complex traits such as disease susceptibility. Nonetheless, many …

The availability of cheap and abundant molecular markers has led to plant-breeding
methods that rely on the prediction of genotypic value from marker data, but published …