Introduction To Selecting Subsets Of Traits For Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis
2010
Achberger, Tilman | Fleet, James C. | Salt, David E. | Doerge, R.W.
Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping is a popular statistical method that is often used in agricultural applications to identify genomic regions associated with phenotypic traits of interest. In its most common form, a QTL analysis tests one phenotypic trait at a time using a variety of research hypotheses that depend on the application. When multiple traits are available, there are considerable benefits to analyzing subsets of biologically related traits in a multiple-trait QTL mapping framework. Determining the most informative subset(s) of traits is the critical challenge that we address in this work. We present our approach, as well as simulations that demonstrate the performance. We also discuss an application of our approach as applied to an Arabidopsis thaliana data set.
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