Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a tool that can be used to switch a plant's key genetic traits on or ...

It’s been a month since Kári Stefánsson, the founder and former chief executive of the pioneering Icelandic genomics company ...

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Abstract: Discovering critical genetic biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by detecting the complex associations between genotypes (i.e. single nucleotide polymorphism, SNP) and phenotypes (i.e.

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To date, the quantitative genetics theory for genomic selection has focused mainly on the relationship between marker and additive variances assuming one marker and one quantitative trait locus (QTL).

1973), quantitative genetics (Wricke and Weber, 1986; Hallauer and Miranda Filho, 1988; Comstock, 1996; Falconer and Mackay, 1996; Lynch and Walsh, 1998) and biometrical genetics (Mather and Jinks, ...

On its 125th anniversary, Science magazine posed 125 unsolved scientific questions, among which “What genetic changes made us uniquely ... for their dramatic phenotypic differences. Recently, ...

These findings provide insights into the genetic architecture of teat number variation in Dongliao black pigs. Reproductive traits such as the total number of born, number of teats, and number of live ...

In contrast, genetic effects on protein targets are remarkably similar across sexes, with only 103 sex-differential protein quantitative loci (sd-pQTLs; for 2.9% and 0.3% of protein targets from ...

Below we show how functional mapping can help our understanding of the overall picture of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits. Various mathematical equations have been established ...