Sal09 was the most chimeric linkage group with marker loci from all the five A. thaliana chromosomes.
One thousand SNPs per chromosome and 30 QTL were sampled disjointedly (i.e. QTL loci could not be sampled as marker loci) from the genotypes created above.
The four maps were integrated using MergeMap [ 53] to form a consensus map comprised of the expected 7 linkage groups, containing 174 marker loci from 169 markers with a total map length of 899 cM.
It would thus seem straightforward to eliminate uninformative marker loci from polymorphism data sets prior to performing a genome scan, as reflected in Beaumont and Nichols' [ 11] recommendation to preferably use loci with high heterozygosity for such analyses.
Eighty-nine EST-SSR marker loci from this consensus map had significant BLAST hits (top hits with e-value ≤ 1E-10) on the genome sequences of rice, foxtail millet, sorghum, maize and Brachypodium with 35, 88, 58, 48 and 38 loci, respectively.
a missing some marker loci from B. carinata parent, presumed aneuploid gamete b Two copies of alleles from female parent to one copy of alleles from male parent, presumed unreduced female gamete.
Therefore, the selections of suitable marker loci from the different sequence components of target genes are always crucial for evaluating the definite potential of genes for trait association mapping.
A conserved block in the linkage map of yellow mustard was defined as a region with at least two closely linked ILP marker loci from the same block of A. thaliana.
A total of 285 marker loci from 253 EST-SSR markers were genotyped in BCIB, BCIF, or both populations; 222 marker loci were genotyped in both BCIB and BCIF, and 63 were genotyped in only one of the BCIB or BCIF populations.
The 'BayesB' model was extended to include a polygenic effect (a): where y is the vector of phenotypes, μ is the overall mean, a is the vector of polygenic effects, is the summation over all marker loci from 1 to Nloc, where Nloc is varying from 1010 marker loci for the lowest marker density (1Ne/M) to 8080 marker loci for the highest marker density (8Ne/M).
