However, specific perturbations related to linguistic differences, population specific traits, and the complex migratory history of these groups, can be identified.
In domesticated populations, specific traits of interest may be improved through introgression of genes from a donor line favourable with respect to a trait of interest (e.g., a wild population resistant to a specific disease).
Heritability is a population-specific and trait-specific parameter, so it is natural that estimates have been diverse, depending on the samples and traits studied.
In order to improve the predictive power of future responses to environmental change, information on the dynamics of locally adapted populations, as well as on population-specific adaptive trait values, will be required.
It is yet another evidence for using local, population-specific references of anthropometric traits [ 2].
Here, we perform the first transethnic fine-mapping study across three Asian cohorts from diverse ancestries at the loci implicated with eye and blood lipid traits, using population-specific reference panels that have been generated by whole-genome sequencing samples from the same ancestry groups.
The four QTL detected were not in the same locations as in the B73/Mo17 IBM population QTL for those traits, which may be attributable to differences between details of the experimental setup across 2 yr or, more likely, to population-specific allele effects, as for complex traits like growth and yield each population typically has unique genetic effects (Carena et al. 2010).
Second, it is quite likely that at least some of the segregating QTL (quantitative trait loci) are population-specific.
Similar differences were found for other blood and lipid measures, suggesting population-specific genetic components for some of the traits.
Our aim was to map population-specific QTL at high resolution for meat quality traits in Chinese purebred Erhualian and western crossbred DLY populations.
