In genetic linkage studies, while the pedigrees are generally known, background relatedness between the founding individuals, assumed by definition to be unrelated, can seriously affect the results of the analysis. Likelihood approaches to relationship estimation from genetic marker data can all be expressed in terms of finding the most likely pedigree connecting the individuals of interest. Wh...

Elevated pulse pressure is associated with cardiovascular disorders and mortality in various populations. The genetic influence on pulse pressure has been confirmed by heritability estimates using related individuals.Recently, efforts have been made in mapping genes that are linked to the phenotype. We report results on our heritability and linkage study conducted on the Chinese population in m...

Genetic  diversity  is  the  basis  of  the  natural  evolution  of  plant  breeding  and  biological  system  are  important  components  of  sustainability. The aim of this study was to evaluate 116 genotypes of Triticum turgidum from seven countries in terms of morphological traits. The results showed that high significant differences among the genotypes. The correlation between gra...

Genome-wide evaluation uses the associations of a large number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers across the whole genome and then combines the statistical methods with genomic data to predict the genetic values. Genomic predictions relieson linkage disequilibrium (LD) between genetic markers and quantitative trait loci (QTL) in a population. Methods that use all markers simultaneo...

Genetic structure of an endemic tooth-carp fish, Aphanius farsicus from four different water bodies in the Maharlu Lake basin was investigated by applying five microsatellite markers. All of the five examined microsatellite loci showed polymor-phism pattern. A total of four alleles were detected at five microsatellite loci, with an average of 2.8 to 3.5 alleles per locus. Average values of obse...

Vigna vexillata (L.) A. Rich. (tuber cowpea) is an underutilized crop for consuming its tuber and mature seeds. Wild form of V. vexillata is a pan-tropical perennial herbaceous plant which has been used by local people as a food. Wild V. vexillata has also been considered as useful gene(s) source for V. unguiculata (cowpea), since it was reported to have various resistance gene(s) for insects a...

It is well known that pedigree/family data record information on the coexistence in founder haplotypes of alleles at nearby loci and the cotransmission from parent to offspring that reveal different, but complementary, profiles of the genetic architecture. Either conventional linkage analysis that assumes linkage equilibrium or family-based association tests (FBATs) capture only partial informa...

To detect association of the DR1 allele with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) given linkage in the affected sibling pairs of the replicates of Problem 3 of Genetic Analysis Workshop 15 (GAW15), we propose a new score statistic that takes into account the linkage information. We knew the answers. Linkage studies are often followed by case-control association studies of candidate genes located under the...

The combined use of the arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction [AP-PCR, also known as random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD}] and isozyme mapping resulted in the production of 87 potential marker loci, enabling an overall expansion within the genetic map of the fish genus Xiphophorus. Use of DNA sequencing-style acrylamide gels and carefully controlled conditions of amplification ...

Etiologic heterogeneity is a fundamental feature of complex disease etiology; genetic linkage analysis methods to map genes for complex traits that acknowledge the presence of genetic heterogeneity are likely to have greater power to identify subtle changes in complex biologic systems. We investigate the use of trait-related covariates to examine evidence for linkage in the presence of heteroge...