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A whole-genome association approach for large-scale interspecies traits

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Professor Qiang Qiu for the profound discussion that we benefited from during this project. We would also like to thank Xinhai Li for help and assistance with the application of the random forest method and Dr Yewen Zhu for carefully proofreading the entire manuscript. The programme used in this research has been registered on the GitHub website (http://github.com/fanhuizhong/kemr_GWAS). This work is supported by grants from the National Key Program of Research and Development, Ministry of Science and Technology (2016YFC0503200), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDPB0202), the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KJZD-EW-L07) and the NSFC Major Scientific Research Program (91746119).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Huizhong Fan, Yibo Hu & Fuwen Wei

  2. State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Guohui Shi, Yi Dai & Qi Wu

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Huizhong Fan, Yi Dai & Fuwen Wei

  4. Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129, China

    Lei Chen & Fuwen Wei

  5. Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650223, China

    Yibo Hu

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Fan, H., Chen, L., Hu, Y. et al. A whole-genome association approach for large-scale interspecies traits. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 1372–1374 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1771-5

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