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marker-assisted selection in wheat - ictsd

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216Marker-<strong>assisted</strong> <strong>selection</strong> – Current status and future perspectives <strong>in</strong> crops, livestock, forestry and fishthe deduced QTL genotypes of a sample of<strong>in</strong>dividuals correspond completely to theirgenotypes for the putative QTN. All <strong>in</strong>dividualsheterozygous for the QTL shouldbe heterozygous for the putative QTN,with the same QTN allele associated withthe same QTL allele <strong>in</strong> all <strong>in</strong>dividuals, andall <strong>in</strong>dividuals homozygous for the QTLshould also be homozygous for the QTN.Theoretically, the sample of <strong>in</strong>dividualsanalysed should be large enough to rejectstatistically the hypothesis that concordancewas obta<strong>in</strong>ed by chance. However,<strong>in</strong> dairy cattle, the only <strong>in</strong>dividuals forwhich QTL genotype can be derived withany level of reliability are sires that havebeen analysed by either a daughter orgranddaughter design, and the numberof these <strong>in</strong>dividuals will always be limited.Furthermore, there is at present noaccepted theory to compute concordanceprobabilities by chance, consider<strong>in</strong>g thatany polymorphism very close to the QTNwill display significant LD. Several studieshave addressed the problem (Cohen-Z<strong>in</strong>deret al., 2005; Schnabel et al., 2005). The casefor identification of the QTN is clearlymore compell<strong>in</strong>g if concordance is obta<strong>in</strong>ed<strong>in</strong> two different populations.From QTL to QTN – resultsTo date, the QTN has been determ<strong>in</strong>ed<strong>in</strong> two cases <strong>in</strong> dairy cattle, on BTA 6 andBTA 14. In both cases the QTL chieflyaffected fat and prote<strong>in</strong> concentration andthe QTL effect was large enough that theconfidence <strong>in</strong>terval for QTL location was

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