Joint mapping of quantitative trait loci for multiple binary characters

Joint mapping for multiple quantitative traits has shed new light on genetic mapping by pinpointing pleiotropic effects and close linkage. Joint mapping also can improve statistical power of QTL detection. However, such a joint mapping procedure has not been available for discrete traits. Most disea...

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Autores principales: Xu, Chenwu, Li, Zhikang, Xu, Shizhong
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/166752
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author Xu, Chenwu
Li, Zhikang
Xu, Shizhong
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Xu, Chenwu
Xu, Shizhong
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Li, Zhikang
Xu, Shizhong
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description Joint mapping for multiple quantitative traits has shed new light on genetic mapping by pinpointing pleiotropic effects and close linkage. Joint mapping also can improve statistical power of QTL detection. However, such a joint mapping procedure has not been available for discrete traits. Most disease resistance traits are measured as one or more discrete characters. These discrete characters are often correlated. Joint mapping for multiple binary disease traits may provide an opportunity to explore pleiotropic effects and increase the statistical power of detecting disease loci. We develop a maximum-likelihood method for mapping multiple binary traits. We postulate a set of multivariate normal disease liabilities, each contributing to the phenotypic variance of one disease trait. The underlying liabilities are linked to the binary phenotypes through some underlying thresholds. The new method actually maps loci for the variation of multivariate normal liabilities. As a result, we are able to take advantage of existing methods of joint mapping for quantitative traits. We treat the multivariate liabilities as missing values so that an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm can be applied here. We also extend the method to joint mapping for both discrete and continuous traits. Efficiency of the method is demonstrated using simulated data. We also apply the new method to a set of real data and detect several loci responsible for blast resistance in rice.
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spelling CGSpace1667522024-12-22T05:44:55Z Joint mapping of quantitative trait loci for multiple binary characters Xu, Chenwu Li, Zhikang Xu, Shizhong quantitative trait loci genetic mapping disease resistance phenotypic variation phenotypes Joint mapping for multiple quantitative traits has shed new light on genetic mapping by pinpointing pleiotropic effects and close linkage. Joint mapping also can improve statistical power of QTL detection. However, such a joint mapping procedure has not been available for discrete traits. Most disease resistance traits are measured as one or more discrete characters. These discrete characters are often correlated. Joint mapping for multiple binary disease traits may provide an opportunity to explore pleiotropic effects and increase the statistical power of detecting disease loci. We develop a maximum-likelihood method for mapping multiple binary traits. We postulate a set of multivariate normal disease liabilities, each contributing to the phenotypic variance of one disease trait. The underlying liabilities are linked to the binary phenotypes through some underlying thresholds. The new method actually maps loci for the variation of multivariate normal liabilities. As a result, we are able to take advantage of existing methods of joint mapping for quantitative traits. We treat the multivariate liabilities as missing values so that an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm can be applied here. We also extend the method to joint mapping for both discrete and continuous traits. Efficiency of the method is demonstrated using simulated data. We also apply the new method to a set of real data and detect several loci responsible for blast resistance in rice. 2005-02-01 2024-12-19T12:56:36Z 2024-12-19T12:56:36Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/166752 en Oxford University Press Xu, Chenwu; Li, Zhikang and Xu, Shizhong. 2005. Joint mapping of quantitative trait loci for multiple binary characters.
spellingShingle quantitative trait loci
genetic mapping
disease resistance
phenotypic variation
phenotypes
Xu, Chenwu
Li, Zhikang
Xu, Shizhong
Joint mapping of quantitative trait loci for multiple binary characters
title Joint mapping of quantitative trait loci for multiple binary characters
title_full Joint mapping of quantitative trait loci for multiple binary characters
title_fullStr Joint mapping of quantitative trait loci for multiple binary characters
title_full_unstemmed Joint mapping of quantitative trait loci for multiple binary characters
title_short Joint mapping of quantitative trait loci for multiple binary characters
title_sort joint mapping of quantitative trait loci for multiple binary characters
topic quantitative trait loci
genetic mapping
disease resistance
phenotypic variation
phenotypes
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/166752
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