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Resequencing of 31 wild and cultivated soybean genomes identifies patterns of genetic diversity and selection

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We report a large-scale analysis of the patterns of genome-wide genetic variation in soybeans. We re-sequenced a total of 17 wild and 14 cultivated soybean genomes to an average of approximately ×5 depth and >90% coverage using the Illumina Genome Analyzer II platform. We compared the patterns of genetic variation between wild and cultivated soybeans and identified higher allelic diversity in wild soybeans. We identified a high level of linkage disequilibrium in the soybean genome, suggesting that marker-assisted breeding of soybean will be less challenging than map-based cloning. We report linkage disequilibrium block location and distribution, and we identified a set of 205,614 tag SNPs that may be useful for QTL mapping and association studies. The data here provide a valuable resource for the analysis of wild soybeans and to facilitate future breeding and quantitative trait analysis.

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Figure 1: Analysis of the phylogenetic relationship, population structure and LD decay of wild and cultivated soybeans.
Figure 2: Summary of resequencing data of 17 wild and 14 cultivated soybean accessions.
Figure 3: Patterns of LD blocks in two genomic regions.

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T. Han, X. Yan, H. Liao, B. Zhuang and Y.-K. Lau provided valuable advice, information and other aid. This work was partially supported by the Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund 468610 (to H.-M.L.), the Hong Kong UGC AoE Center for Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology Project AoE-B-07/09 and a special fund from the Resource Allocation Committee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (to H.-M.L. and S.S.-M.S.). We also acknowledge the funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30725008), the Chinese 973 program (2007CB815703; 2007CB815705), Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (948 program), the Shenzhen Municipal Government of China and grants from Shenzhen Bureau of Science Technology & Information, China (ZYC200903240077A; CXB200903110066A). We thank L. Goodman for assistance in editing the manuscript.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong

    Hon-Ming Lam, Xin Liu, Fuk-Ling Wong, Man-Wah Li, Guihua Shao & Samuel Sai-Ming Sun

  2. BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

    Xun Xu, Xin Liu, Wenbin Chen, Guohua Yang, Weiming He, Nan Qin, Bo Wang, Jun Li, Min Jian, Jian Wang, Jun Wang & Gengyun Zhang

  3. Key Laboratory of Genomics, Ministry of Agriculture, BGI-Shenzhen, China

    Xun Xu & Gengyun Zhang

  4. Institute of Crop Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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  5. Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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H.-M.L., G.Z., S.S.-M.S. and Jun Wang managed the project. H.-M.L., X.X., X.L, N.Q. and G.Y. designed the experiments and led the data analysis. W.H., B.W., J.L., W.C., M.J. and Jian Wang contributed to DNA sequencing and bioinformatics. F.-L.W., M.-W.L. and G.S. prepared samples and contributed to data analysis. H.-M.L., X.X. and X.L. wrote the manuscript.

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Lam, HM., Xu, X., Liu, X. et al. Resequencing of 31 wild and cultivated soybean genomes identifies patterns of genetic diversity and selection. Nat Genet 42, 1053–1059 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.715

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