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ArticlePloS one2018

An assessment of the performance of the logistic mixed model for analyzing binary traits in maize and sorghum diversity panels.

Esperanza Shenstone, Julian Cooper, Brian Rice, Martin Bohn, Tiffany M Jamann, Alexander E Lipka

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Esperanza ShenstoneDepartment of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America.
Julian CooperDepartment of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America.
Brian RiceDepartment of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America.
Martin BohnDepartment of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America.
Tiffany M JamannDepartment of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America.
Alexander E LipkaDepartment of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-1571-8528

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The logistic mixed model (LMM) is well-suited for the genome-wide association study (GWAS) of binary agronomic traits because it can include fixed and random effects that account for spurious associations. The recent implementation of a computationally efficient model fitting and testing approach now makes it practical to use the LMM to search for markers associated with such binary traits on a genome-wide scale. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to assess the applicability of the LMM for GWAS in crop diversity panels. We dichotomized three publicly available quantitative traits in a maize diversity panel and two quantitative traits in a sorghum diversity panel, and them performed a GWAS using both the LMM and the unified mixed linear model (MLM) on these dichotomized traits. Our results suggest that the LMM is capable of identifying statistically significant marker-trait associations in the same genomic regions highlighted in previous studies, and this ability is consistent across both diversity panels. We also show how subpopulation structure in the maize diversity panel can underscore the LMM's superior control for spurious associations compared to the unified MLM. These results suggest that the LMM is a viable model to use for the GWAS of binary traits in crop diversity panels and we therefore encourage its broader implementation in the agronomic research community.

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Genetic VariationGenome-Wide Association StudyModels, StatisticalLinear ModelsSorghumZea mays

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