Recognizing the enormous potential of DNA markers in plant breeding, many agricultural
research centers and plant breeding institutes have adopted the capacity for marker …

Medical genetics was revolutionized during the 1980s by the application of genetic mapping
to locate the genes responsible for simple Mendelian diseases. Most diseases and traits …

Genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) is an important phenomenon in plant breeding.
This paper presents a series of models for describing, exploring, understanding, and …

The detection of genes that control quantitative characters is a problem of great interest to
the genetic mapping community. Methods for locating these quantitative trait loci (QTL) …

QTL are quantitative trait loci: genetic loci that contribute to variation in a quantitative trait.
QTL mapping is the effort to identify QTL through an experimental cross. In this book, we …

Improved genotypes developed by plant breeding remain pivotal to global food security. In
the wake of ever-increasing human population, declining agricultural resources and the …

Statistical Genomics: Linkage, Mapping, and QTL Analysis Page 1 Page 2 Statistical Genomics
Linkage, Mapping, and QTL Analysis CRCPress Ben Hui Liu Boca Raton London New York …

▪ Abstract Phenotypic variation for quantitative traits results from the segregation of alleles at
multiple quantitative trait loci (QTL) with effects that are sensitive to the genetic, sexual, and …

Composite interval mapping (CIM) is the most commonly used method for mapping
quantitative trait loci (QTL) with populations derived from biparental crosses. However, the …

The problem of detecting minor quantitative trait loci (QTL) responsible for genetic variation
not explained by major QTL is of importance in the complete dissection of quantitative …