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  • Title: Evaluation of multi-locus models for genome-wide association studies: a case study in sugar beet.
    Author: Würschum T, Kraft T.
    Journal: Heredity (Edinb); 2015 Mar; 114(3):281-90. PubMed ID: 25351864.
    Abstract:
    Association mapping has become a widely applied genomic approach to dissect the genetic architecture of complex traits. A major issue for association mapping is the need to control for the confounding effects of population structure, which is commonly done by mixed models incorporating kinship information. In this case study, we employed experimental data from a large sugar beet population to evaluate multi-locus models for association mapping. As in linkage mapping, markers are selected as cofactors to control for population structure and genetic background variation. We compared different biometric models with regard to important quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping parameters like the false-positive rate, the QTL detection power and the predictive power for the proportion of explained genotypic variance. Employing different approaches we show that the multi-locus model, that is, incorporating cofactors, outperforms the other models, including the mixed model used as a reference model. Thus, multi-locus models are an attractive alternative for association mapping to efficiently detect QTL for knowledge-based breeding.
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