In recent years, molecular markers have been utilized for a variety of applications including
examination of genetic relationships between individuals, mapping of useful genes …

The use of molecular markers has revolutionized the pace and precision of plant genetic
analysis which in turn facilitated the implementation of molecular breeding of crops. The last …

Adequate separation of effects of possible multiple linked quantitative trait loci (QTLs) on
mapping QTLs is the key to increasing the precision of QTL mapping. A new method of QTL …

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 …

Hypertension, or elevated arterial blood pressure, is a been operationally defined as the
blood pressure level substantial public health problem, affecting 25% of the above which …

Macromutations (alleles with major phenotypic effects) have greatly simpli fied the lives of
geneticists. Wingless flies, hairless mice, and dwarf plants can all be conditioned by …

Essential hypertension is a common human disease believed to reautt from the interplay of
multiple genetic and environmental determinants. In genetic studies of two large panels of …

Genetic engineering and biotechnology hold great potential for plant breeding as it promises
to expedite the time taken to produce crop varieties with desirable characters. With the use …

The hypothesis of a genetic control of plasma angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) level
has been suggested both by segregation analysis and by the identification of an …

A very general method is described for multiple linear regression of a quantitative phenotype
on genotype [putative quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and markers] in segregating generations …