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SNP frequency, haplotype structure and linkage disequilibrium in elite maize inbred lines
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Ada Ching, Katherine S Caldwell, Mark Jung, Maurine Dolan, Oscar S (Howie) Smith, Scott Tingey, Michele Morgante and Antoni J Rafalski Antoni J Rafalski Email: j-antoni.rafalski@usa.dupont.com DuPont Crop Genetics, Delaware Technology Park, Suite 200, P.O. Box 6104, Newark, Delaware 19714, USA
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BioMed Central (BMC)
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2002-10
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BMC Genetics
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© 2002 Ching et al
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Background: Recent studies of ancestral maize populations indicate that linkage disequilibrium tends to dissipate rapidly, sometimes within 100 bp. We set out to examine the linkage disequilibrium and diversity in maize elite inbred lines, which have been subject to population bottlenecks and intense selection by breeders. Such population events are expected to increase the amount of linkage disequilibrium, but reduce diversity. The results of this study will inform the design of genetic association studies.

Results: We examined the frequency and distribution of DNA polymorphisms at 18 maize genes in 36 maize inbreds, chosen to represent most of the genetic diversity in U.S. elite maize breeding pool. The frequency of nucleotide changes is high, on average one polymorphism per 31 bp in noncoding regions and 1 polymorphism per 124 bp in coding regions. Insertions and deletions are frequent in non-coding regions (1 per 85 bp), but rare in coding regions. A small number (2–8) of distinct and highly diverse haplotypes can be distinguished at all loci examined. Within genes, SNP loci comprising the haplotypes are in linkage disequilibrium with each other.

Conclusions: No decline of linkage disequilibrium within a few hundred base pairs was found in the elite maize germplasm. This finding, as well as the small number of haplotypes, relative to neutral expectation, is consistent with the effects of breeding-induced bottlenecks and selection on the elite germplasm pool. The genetic distance between haplotypes is large, indicative of an ancient gene pool and of possible interspecific hybridization events in maize ancestry.
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doi:10.1186/1471-2156-3-19
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Citation: BMC Genetics 2002, 3:19
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