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Sib mating designs for mapping quantitative trait loci

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The power to separate the variance of a quantitative trait locus (QTL) from the polygenic variance is determined by the variability of genes identical by descent (IBD) at the QTL. This variability may increase with inbreeding. Selfing, the most extreme form of inbreeding, increases the variability of the IBD value shared by siblings, and thus has a higher efficiency for QTL mapping than random mating. In self-incompatible organisms, sib mating is the closest form of inbreeding. Similar to selfing, sib mating may also increase the power of QTL detection relative to random mating. In this study, we develop an IBD-based method under sib mating designs for QTL mapping. The efficiency of sib mating is then compared with random mating. Monte Carlo simulations show that sib mating designs notably increase the power for QTL detection. When power is intermediate, the power to detect a QTL using full-sib mating is, on average, 7% higher than under random mating. In addition, the IBD-based method proposed in this paper can be used to combine data from multiple families. As a result, the estimated QTL parameters can be applied to a wide statistical inference space relating to the entire reference population.

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  1. Department of Botany and Plant Science, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA

    Chongqing Xie, Damian D.G. Gessler & Shizhong Xu

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Xie, C., Gessler, D.D. & Xu, S. Sib mating designs for mapping quantitative trait loci. Genetica 104, 9–19 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003220609636

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