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ArticleNature genetics2012

Genome-wide patterns of genetic variation in worldwide Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from the RegMap panel.

Matthew W Horton, Angela M Hancock, Yu S Huang, Christopher Toomajian, Susanna Atwell, Adam Auton, N Wayan Muliyati, Alexander Platt, F Gianluca Sperone, Bjarni J Vilhjálmsson and 3 more

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Article in Nature genetics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 276 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13 authors.

Matthew W HortonDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Angela M Hancock
Yu S Huang
Christopher Toomajian
Susanna Atwell
Adam Auton
N Wayan Muliyati
Alexander Platt
F Gianluca Sperone
Bjarni J Vilhjálmsson
Magnus Nordborg
Justin O Borevitz
Joy Bergelson

Funding

The Molecular Basis of Local Adaptation in Arabidopsis thalianaR01GM083068 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI BERGELSON, JOY M · 2008 to 2012
$2.1M
EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS OF R LOCI IN ARABIDOPSISR01GM057994 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BERGELSON, JOY M · 1998 to 2007
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM057994NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM083068
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arabidopsis thaliana is native to Eurasia and is naturalized across the world. Its ability to be easily propagated and its high phenotypic variability make it an ideal model system for functional, ecological and evolutionary genetics. To date, analyses of the natural genetic variation of A. thaliana have involved small numbers of individual plants or genetic markers. Here we genotype 1,307 worldwide accessions, including several regional samples, using a 250K SNP chip. This allowed us to produce a high-resolution description of the global pattern of genetic variation. We applied three complementary selection tests and identified new targets of selection. Further, we characterized the pattern of historical recombination in A. thaliana and observed an enrichment of hotspots in its intergenic regions and repetitive DNA, which is consistent with the pattern that is observed for humans but which is strikingly different from that observed in other plant species. We have made the seeds we used to produce this Regional Mapping (RegMap) panel publicly available. This panel comprises one of the largest genomic mapping resources currently available for global natural isolates of a non-human species.

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Genetic VariationGenome, PlantArabidopsisChromosome MappingGenotypeGeographyPolymorphism, Single NucleotideRecombination, GeneticSelection, Genetic

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PMCPMC3267885

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