Improving power of genome-wide association studies via transforming ordinal phenotypes into continuous phenotypes

IntroductionOrdinal traits are important complex traits in crops, while genome-wide association study (GWAS) is a widely-used method in their gene mining. Presently, GWAS of continuous quantitative traits (C-GWAS) and single-locus association analysis method of ordinal traits are the main methods us...

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Main Authors: Ming Yang, Yangjun Wen, Jinchang Zheng, Jin Zhang, Tuanjie Zhao, Jianying Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1247181/full