title: CSGRqtl: A Comparative Quantitative Trait Locus Database for Saccharinae Grasses.
abstract: Conventional biparental quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping has led to some successes in the identification of causal genes in many organisms. QTL likelihood intervals not only provide "prior information" for finer-resolution approaches such as GWAS but also provide better statistical power than GWAS to detect variants with low/rare frequency in a natural population. Here, we describe a new element of an ongoing effort to provide online resources to facilitate study and improvement of the important Saccharinae clade. The primary goal of this new resource is the anchoring of published QTLs for this clade to the Sorghum genome. Genetic map alignments translate a wealth of genomic information from sorghum to Saccharum spp., Miscanthus spp., and other taxa. In addition, genome alignments facilitate comparison of the Saccharinae QTL sets to those of other taxa that enjoy comparable resources, exemplified herein by rice.
authors.affiliation: Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory (Dept #398), University of Georgia, 111 Riverbend Road, Rm 228, Athens, GA, 30602, USA. paterson@uga.edu.
authors.forename: Andrew H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Paterson
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D032461:Chromosomes, Plant; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D006109:Poaceae / Q000235:genetics*; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D031786:Saccharum / Q000235:genetics*; D012984:Software
keywords: Biparental QTL mapping; Genetic correspondence; Quantitative trait locus; Saccharinae