Choosing the optimal population for a genome-wide association study: a simulation using whole-genome sequences from rice
Kosuke Hamazaki, Hiromi Kajiya‐Kanegae, Masanori Yamasaki, Kaworu Ebana, Shiori Yabe, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hiroyoshi Iwata
This study shows that combining target populations with more diverse populations improves GWAS power for detecting QTNs, depending on genetic diversity metrics like FST and He.
The Plant Genome · Mar 1, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics