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ArticleNature2012

The Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel.

Trudy F C Mackay, Stephen Richards, Eric A Stone, Antonio Barbadilla, Julien F Ayroles, Dianhui Zhu, Sònia Casillas, Yi Han, Michael M Magwire, Julie M Cridland and 42 more

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Article in Nature, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,078 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1,078citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
94.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1,078 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,866 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

52 authors at 8 institutions in 3 countries.

Trudy F C MackayDepartment of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA. trudy_mackay@ncsu.edu
Stephen Richards
Eric A Stone
Antonio Barbadilla
Julien F Ayroles
Dianhui Zhu
Sònia Casillas
Yi Han
Michael M Magwire
Julie M Cridland
Mark F Richardson
Robert R H Anholt
Maite Barrón
Crystal Bess
Kerstin Petra Blankenburg
Mary Anna Carbone
David Castellano
Lesley Chaboub
Laura Duncan
Zeke Harris
Mehwish Javaid
Joy Christina Jayaseelan
Shalini N Jhangiani
Katherine W Jordan
Fremiet Lara
Faye Lawrence
Sandra L Lee
Pablo Librado
Raquel S Linheiro
Richard F Lyman
Aaron J Mackey
Mala Munidasa
Donna Marie Muzny
Lynne Nazareth
Irene Newsham
Lora Perales
Ling-Ling Pu
Carson Qu
Miquel Ràmia
Jeffrey G Reid
Stephanie M Rollmann
Julio Rozas
Nehad Saada
Lavanya Turlapati
Kim C Worley
Yuan-Qing Wu
Akihiko Yamamoto
Yiming Zhu
Casey M Bergman
Kevin R Thornton
David Mittelman
Richard A Gibbs
Baylor College of Medicine · USNorth Carolina State University · USUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESUniversity of Manchester · GBUniversitat de Barcelona · ESUniversity of California, Irvine · USUniversity of Virginia · USVirginia Tech · US

Funding

The Human Genome Sequencing CenterU54HG003273 · NHGRI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI GIBBS, RICHARD A · 2004 to 2015
$341.3M
Molecular Genetics of Olfaction in DrosophiliaR01GM059469 · NIGMS · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI ANHOLT, ROBERT R. H, MACKAY, TRUDY F. · 1999 to 2016
$5.8M
QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI IN DROSOPHILAR01GM045146 · NIGMS · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI ANHOLT, ROBERT R. H, MACKAY, TRUDY F. · 1991 to 2012
$5.1M
Population genetics of gene duplications and copy-number variants in the DrosophiR01GM085183 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI THORNTON, KEVIN R. · 2009 to 2013
$1.2M
NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG003273NIGMS NIH HHS GM 45146NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM045146NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM 059469NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059469NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM 085183NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM085183
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A major challenge of biology is understanding the relationship between molecular genetic variation and variation in quantitative traits, including fitness. This relationship determines our ability to predict phenotypes from genotypes and to understand how evolutionary forces shape variation within and between species. Previous efforts to dissect the genotype-phenotype map were based on incomplete genotypic information. Here, we describe the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP), a community resource for analysis of population genomics and quantitative traits. The DGRP consists of fully sequenced inbred lines derived from a natural population. Population genomic analyses reveal reduced polymorphism in centromeric autosomal regions and the X chromosome, evidence for positive and negative selection, and rapid evolution of the X chromosome. Many variants in novel genes, most at low frequency, are associated with quantitative traits and explain a large fraction of the phenotypic variance. The DGRP facilitates genotype-phenotype mapping using the power of Drosophila genetics.

Indexed as

Genome-Wide Association StudyGenomicsAllelesAnimalsCentromereChromosomes, InsectDrosophila melanogasterGenotypePhenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotideQuantitative Trait LociSelection, GeneticStarvationTelomereX Chromosome

Identifiers

PMID22318601
PMCPMC3683990
OpenAlexW2117925179

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