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ArticleG3 (Bethesda, Md.)2025

A unified VCF dataset from nearly 1,500 diverse maize accessions and resources to explore the genomic landscape of maize.

Carson M Andorf, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Arun S Seetharam, Matthew B Hufford, Margaret R Woodhouse

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Article in G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Carson M AndorfUSDA-ARS, Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Ames, IA 50011, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2380-6704
Jeffrey Ross-IbarraDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, Genome Center, and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1656-4954
Arun S SeetharamDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6789-9298
Matthew B HuffordDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3945-1143
Margaret R WoodhouseUSDA-ARS, Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Ames, IA 50011, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2164-8300

Funding

AI Center of Excellence of the USDA Agricultural Research Service 0201-88888-003-000DCorn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit in Ames, IowaIowa State UniversitySCINetUSDA CA-D-PLS-2066-HUS. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service 5030-21000-072-00-D
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Efforts to capture and analyze maize nucleotide diversity have ranged widely in scope, but differences in reference genome version and software algorithms used in these efforts inhibit comparison, and these data are generally not available in an easy-to-use visualization platform for quick access and analysis. To address these issues, The Maize Genetics and Genomics Database has collaborated with maize researchers to offer variant data from a diverse set of 1,498 inbred lines, traditional varieties, and teosintes through a standardized variant-calling pipeline against version 5 of the B73 reference genome. The output was filtered for mapping quality, completeness, and linkage disequilibrium, and annotated based on variant effects relative to the B73 RefGen_v5 gene annotations. MaizeGDB has also updated a web tool, SNPversity 2.0, to filter, visualize, and download genotype sets based on genomic locations and accessions of interest, and added external datasets to demonstrate SNPversity 2.0's broad usage. MaizeGDB plans to host annual updates of these resources as additional resequencing data become available, with plans to expand to all publicly available sequence data.

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Databases, GeneticGenome, PlantGenomicsZea maysGenetic VariationGenotypeLinkage DisequilibriumMolecular Sequence AnnotationPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSoftwarediversitygenomemaizetoolsvariants

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PMID39611775
PMCPMC11797055

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