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Overview of QTL detection in plants and tests for synergistic epistatic interactions

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Improvements in the usefulness of QTL analysis arise from better statistical methods applied to the problem, ability to analyze more complex mating designs, and the fitting of less simplified genetic models. Here we review the advantages of different plant mating designs in QTL analysis and conclude that diallel designs have several favorable properties. We then turn to the detection of systematic genome-wide synergistic epistasis. This form of epistasis has important implications from evolutionary (maintenance of sexual reproduction and concealment of cryptic genetic variation) and practical perspectives (response to pyramided favorable alleles). We develop two methods for detecting systematic synergistic epistasis, one based on analyzing interactions between locus effects and predicted individual genotypic values and one based on analyzing pairwise locus interactions. Using the first method we detect synergistic epistasis in a barley and a wheat dataset but not in a maize dataset. We fail to detect synergistic epistasis with the second method. We discuss our results in the light of theoretical questions concerning the mechanisms of synergistic epistasis.
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hal-00964414 , version 1 (24-03-2014)

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Jean-Luc J.-L. Jannink, Laurence L. Moreau, Gilles Charmet, Alain A. Charcosset. Overview of QTL detection in plants and tests for synergistic epistatic interactions. 3. International Conference of Quantitative Genetics, Aug 2007, Hangzhou, China. ⟨hal-00964414⟩
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