학술논문

Construction of the third generation Zea mays haplotype map
Document Type
article
Source
GigaScience. 7(4)
Subject
Biological Sciences
Genetics
Human Genome
Genetic Variation
Genome
Plant
Haplotypes
Zea mays
Zea may
sequencing
haplotype map
genotyping
variant discovery
linkage disequilibrium
identity by descent
imputation
Language
Abstract
BackgroundCharacterization of genetic variations in maize has been challenging, mainly due to deterioration of collinearity between individual genomes in the species. An international consortium of maize research groups combined resources to develop the maize haplotype version 3 (HapMap 3), built from whole-genome sequencing data from 1218 maize lines, covering predomestication and domesticated Zea mays varieties across the world.ResultsA new computational pipeline was set up to process more than 12 trillion bp of sequencing data, and a set of population genetics filters was applied to identify more than 83 million variant sites.ConclusionsWe identified polymorphisms in regions where collinearity is largely preserved in the maize species. However, the fact that the B73 genome used as the reference only represents a fraction of all haplotypes is still an important limiting factor.