Kinship coefficients and F ST, which measure genetic relatedness and the overall
population structure, respectively, have important biomedical applications. However …

In a population intended for breeding and selection, questions of interest relative to a
specific segregating QTL are the variance it generates in the population, and the number …

Neurospora crassa has been a model organism for the study of circadian clocks for the past
four decades. Among natural accessions of Neurospora crassa, there is significant variation …

Seeds are the product of sexual reproduction in flowering plants. The seeds of cereals are
the main source of staple food, animal feed and the raw material of food and fiber-based …

Quantitative genetics (in its various guises) has been the intellectual cornerstone of plant
breeding for close to 100 years. While the roots of Mendelian genetics, and its rediscovery …

In a recent issue of Science, Lander and Weinberg (1) stated that “without doubt, the
greatest achievement in biology over the past millennium has been the elucidation of the …

In Quantitative Trait Loci: Methods and Protocols, a panel of highly experienced statistical
geneticists demonstrate in a step-by-step fashion how to successfully analyze quantitative …

Fixed effects models have dominated the statistical analysis of genetic crosses between
inbred strains. In spite of their popularity, the traditional models ignore polygenic …

Although mapping quantitative traits in inbred strains is simpler than mapping the analogous
traits in humans, classical inbred crosses suffer from reduced genetic diversity compared to …

Mapping quantitative trait loci in plants is usually conducted using a population derived from
a cross between two lines. The power of such QTL detection and mapping strategies and the …