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Nature Genetics 39, 1056 - 1057 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ng0907-1056

An Arabidopsis haplotype map takes root

Edward Buckler1 & Michael Gore2

  1. Edward Buckler is in the US Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA, and the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. e-mail: esb33@cornell.edu
  2. Michael Gore is in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.


The report of a haplotype map for the selfing plant Arabidopsis thaliana has uncovered numerous major-effect polymorphisms and rapid linkage disequilibrium decay. This work lays the foundation for genome-wide association studies at near-gene-level resolution in a model organism possessing substantial functional diversity and extensive community resources.

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