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GWAS Case Studies in Wheat

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Genome-Wide Association Studies

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 2481))

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With the advancements in next-generation sequencing technologies, leading to millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms in all crop species including wheat, genome-wide association study (GWAS) has become a leading approach for trait dissection. In wheat, GWAS has been conducted for a plethora of traits and more and more studies are being conducted and reported in journals. While application of GWAS has become a routine in wheat using the standardized approaches, there has been a great leap forward using newer models and combination of GWAS with other sets of data. This chapter has reviewed all these latest advancements in GWAS in wheat by citing the most important studies and their outputs. Specially, we have focused on studies that conducted meta-GWAS, multilocus GWAS, haplotype-based GWAS, Environmental- and Eigen-GWAS, and/or GWAS combined with gene regulatory network and pathway analyses or epistatic interactions analyses; all these have taken the association mapping approach to new heights in wheat.

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  1. International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera Mex-Veracruz, Texcoco, CP, Mexico

    Deepmala Sehgal & Susanne Dreisigacker

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Sehgal, D., Dreisigacker, S. (2022). GWAS Case Studies in Wheat. In: Torkamaneh, D., Belzile, F. (eds) Genome-Wide Association Studies. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2481. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2237-7_19

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