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Graph pangenomes find missing heritability

Nature Genetics volume 54, pages 919–920 (2022)Cite this article

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The use of association studies to identify candidate genes for complex biological traits in plants has been challenging due to a reliance on single reference genomes, leading to missing heritability. Graphical pangenomes and the identification of causal variants help overcome this and provide an important advance for crop breeding.

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Fig. 1: Graph pangenomes capture the genomic diversity that underlies the observed phenotypic diversity and maintains this structural variation information within the context of linear chromosomes.

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  2. School of Biological Sciences and Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia

    Jacqueline Batley

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Edwards, D., Batley, J. Graph pangenomes find missing heritability. Nat Genet 54, 919–920 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01099-8

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