AOBPreview originally published online on September 16, 2009
Annals of Botany 2009 104(6):ix; doi:10.1093/aob/mcp218
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Association mapping in plants
Association mapping in plantsNC Oraguzie, EHA Rikkerink, SE Gardiner, HN de Silva. eds. 2007.
New York: Springer Science+Business Media. $139 (hardback). 277 pp.
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Association genetics is a relatively new approach to dissect complex traits that is based on the establishment of causal relationships between genotypes and phenotypes in natural or breeding populations. The use of new high-throughput techniques, which allow in a single assay genotyping of thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), has boosted the application of this approach both in animal and plant research. Originating in human genetics, association genetics is now widely used in plant breeding, in particular in undomesticated organisms such as forest trees. The main advantage of association mapping in
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