Correction to: Novel SNP markers in InvGE and SssI genes are associated with natural variation of sugar contents and frying color in Solanum tuberosum Group Phureja

Authors: D. Duarte-Delgado, D. Juyó, C. Gebhardt, F. Sarmiento and T. Mosquera-Vásquez

Generalized disequilibrium test for association in qualitative traits incorporating imprinting effects based on extended pedigrees

For dichotomous traits, the generalized disequilibrium test with the moment estimate of the variance (GDT-ME) is a powerful family-based association method. Genomic imprinting is an important epigenetic phenom...

Authors: Jian-Long Li, Peng Wang, Wing Kam Fung and Ji-Yuan Zhou

Identification of putative markers linked to grain plumpness in rice (Oryza sativa L.) via association mapping

Poor grain plumpness (GP) is one of the main constraints to reaching the yield potential of hybrid rice.

Authors: Erbao Liu, Siyuan Zeng, Xiangong Chen, Xiaojing Dang, Lijun Liang, Hui Wang, Zhiyao Dong, Yang Liu and Delin Hong

Genetic evidence of multiple invasions and a small number of founders of Asian Palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer) in Thailand

Borassus flabellifer or Asian Palmyra palm is an important crop for local economies in the South and Southeast Asia for its fruit and palm sugar production. Archeological and historica...

Authors: Kwanjai Pipatchartlearnwong, Akarapong Swatdipong, Supachai Vuttipongchaikij and Somsak Apisitwanich

Fine mapping of a QTL affecting levels of skatole on pig chromosome 7

Previous studies in the Norwegian pig breeds Landrace and Duroc have revealed a QTL for levels of skatole located in the region 74.7–80.5 Mb on SSC7. Skatole is one of the main components causing boar taint, w...

Authors: Maren van Son, Matthew P. Kent, Harald Grove, Rahul Agarwal, Hanne Hamland, Sigbjørn Lien and Eli Grindflek

Hox genes reveal genomic DNA variation in tetraploid hybrids derived from Carassius auratus red var. (female) × Megalobrama amblycephala (male)

Allotetraploid F₁ hybrids (4nF₁) (AABB, 4n = 148) were generated from the distant hybridization of Carassius auratus red var. (RCC) (AA, 2n = 100) (♀) × Megalobrama amblycephala (BSB) (BB, 2n = 48) (♂). It has be...

Authors: Y. D. Wang, Q. B. Qin, R. Yang, W. Z. Sun, Q. W. Liu, Y. Y. Huo, X. Huang, M. Tao, C. Zhang, T. Li and S. J. Liu

Quantitative trait loci associated with different polar metabolites in perennial ryegrass - providing scope for breeding towards increasing certain polar metabolites

Recent advances in the mapping of biochemical traits have been reported in Lolium perenne. Although the mapped traits, including individual sugars and fatty acids, contribute greatly towards ruminant productivity...

Authors: Alexandre Foito, Christine Anne Hackett, Derek Stewart, Janaki Velmurugan, Dan Milbourne, Stephen L. Byrne and Susanne Barth

LAIT: a local ancestry inference toolkit

Inferring local ancestry in individuals of mixed ancestry has many applications, most notably in identifying disease-susceptible loci that vary among different ethnic groups. Many software packages are availab...

Authors: Daniel Hui, Zhou Fang, Jerome Lin, Qing Duan, Yun Li, Ming Hu and Wei Chen

Refining the South Asian Origin of the Romani people

 Recent genetic studies based on genome-wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) data further investigated the history of Roma and suggested that the source of South Asian ancestry in Roma originates most lik...

Authors: Bela I. Melegh, Zsolt Banfai, Kinga Hadzsiev, Attila Miseta and Bela Melegh

The satellite DNA AflaSAT-1 in the A and B chromosomes of the grasshopper Abracris flavolineata

Satellite DNAs (satDNAs) are organized in repetitions directly contiguous to one another, forming long arrays and composing a large portion of eukaryote genomes. These sequences evolve according to the concert...

Authors: Diogo Milani, Érica Ramos, Vilma Loreto, Dardo Andrea Martí, Adauto Lima Cardoso, Karen Cristiane Martinez de Moraes, Cesar Martins and Diogo Cavalcanti Cabral-de-Mello

Identifying highly informative genetic markers for quantification of ancestry proportions in crossbred sheep populations: implications for choosing optimum levels of admixture

Understanding the relationship between genetic admixture and performances is crucial for the success of crossbreeding programs. Use of small sets of ancestry informative markers (AIMs) is a cost effective opti...

Authors: Tesfaye Getachew, Heather J. Huson, Maria Wurzinger, Jörg Burgstaller, Solomon Gizaw, Aynalem Haile, Barbara Rischkowsky, Gottfried Brem, Solomon Antwi Boison, Gábor Mészáros, Ally Okeyo Mwai and Johann Sölkner

A major QTL on chromosome 7HS controls the response of barley seedling to salt stress in the Nure × Tremois population

Seedling establishment is a crucial and vulnerable stage in the crop life cycle which determines further plant growth. While many studies are available on salt tolerance at the vegetative stage, the mechanisms...

Authors: Wentao Xue, Jun Yan, Gang Zhao, Yan Jiang, Jianping Cheng, Luigi Cattivelli and Alessandro Tondelli

Prenatal caloric restriction alters lipid metabolism but not hepatic Fasn gene expression and methylation profiles in rats

Undernutrition is an increasingly common problem. Insufficient calorie intake and nutrient deficiencies during pregnancy may have an impact not only on the mother, but may also alter metabolism in the infant. ...

Authors: Joanna Nowacka-Woszuk, Zofia E. Madeja and Agata Chmurzynska

Investigating knockdown resistance (kdr) mechanism against pyrethroids/DDT in the malaria vector Anopheles funestus across Africa

Understanding the molecular basis of insecticide resistance is key to improve the surveillance and monitoring of malaria vector populations under control. In the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus, little is...

Authors: Helen Irving and Charles S. Wondji

Mapping of leptin and its syntenic genes to chicken chromosome 1p

Misidentification of the chicken leptin gene has hampered research of leptin signaling in this species for almost two decades. Recently, the genuine leptin gene with a GC-rich (~70%) repetitive-sequence content w...

Authors: Eyal Seroussi, Frédérique Pitel, Sophie Leroux, Mireille Morisson, Susanne Bornelöv, Shoval Miyara, Sara Yosefi, Larry A. Cogburn, David W. Burt, Leif Anderson and Miriam Friedman-Einat

Variations in 5S rDNAs in diploid and tetraploid offspring of red crucian carp × common carp

The allotetraploid hybrid fish (4nAT) that was created in a previous study through an intergeneric cross between red crucian carp (Carassius auratus red var., ♀) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio L., ♂) provided a...

Authors: Lihai Ye, Chun Zhang, Xiaojun Tang, Yiyi Chen and Shaojun Liu

A de novo missense mutation of FGFR2 causes facial dysplasia syndrome in Holstein cattle

Surveillance for bovine genetic diseases in Denmark identified a hitherto unreported congenital syndrome occurring among progeny of a Holstein sire used for artificial breeding. A genetic aetiology due to a do...

Authors: Jørgen S. Agerholm, Fintan J. McEvoy, Steffen Heegaard, Carole Charlier, Vidhya Jagannathan and Cord Drögemüller

Genetic structure and relationships within and between cultivated and wild korarima [Aframomum corrorima (Braun) P.C.M. Jansen] in Ethiopia as revealed by simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers

Korarima [Aframomum corrorima (Braun) P.C.M. Jansen] is a spice crop native to Ethiopia. Understanding the extent and partitioning of diversity within and among crop landraces and their wild relatives is among th...

Authors: Dagmawit Chombe, Endashaw Bekele, Tomas Bryngelsson, Abel Teshome and Mulatu Geleta

Erratum to: Detection of gene-environment interactions in the presence of linkage disequilibrium and noise by using genetic risk scores with internal weights from elastic net regression

Authors: Anke Hüls, Katja Ickstadt, Tamara Schikowski and Ursula Krämer

Association between serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms and increased suicidal risk among HIV positive patients in Uganda

Persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are at an increased risk of suicide. Increased suicidal risk is a predictor of future attempted and completed suicides and has been associated with poor quality of life and...

Authors: Allan Kalungi, Soraya Seedat, Sian M. J. Hemmings, Lize van der Merwe, Moses L. Joloba, Ann Nanteza, Noeline Nakassujja, Harriet Birabwa, Jennifer Serwanga, Pontiano Kaleebu and Eugene Kinyanda

Resampling-based tests for Lasso in genome-wide association studies

Genome-wide association studies involve detecting association between millions of genetic variants and a trait, which typically use univariate regression to test association between each single variant and the...

Authors: Jaron Arbet, Matt McGue, Snigdhansu Chatterjee and Saonli Basu

Gene expression patterns of chicken neuregulin 3 in association with copy number variation and frameshift deletion

Neuregulin 3 (NRG3) plays a key role in central nervous system development and is a strong candidate for human mental disorders. Thus, genetic variation in NRG3 may have some impact on a variety of phenotypes in ...

Authors: Hideaki Abe, Daiki Aoya, Hiro-aki Takeuchi and Miho Inoue-Murayama

Estimation of linkage disequilibrium and effective population size in New Zealand sheep using three different methods to create genetic maps

Investments in genetic selection have played a major role in the New Zealand sheep industry competitiveness. Selection may erode genetic diversity, which is a crucial factor for the success of breeding program...

Authors: Vincent Prieur, Shannon M. Clarke, Luiz F. Brito, John C. McEwan, Michael A. Lee, Rudiger Brauning, Ken G. Dodds and Benoît Auvray

Dynamics in multiplicity of Plasmodium falciparum infection among children with asymptomatic malaria in central Ghana

The determinants of malaria parasite virulence is not entirely known, but the outcome of malaria infection (asymptomatic or symptomatic) has been associated with carriage of distinct parasite genotypes. Allele...

Authors: Akua Kyerewaa Botwe, Kwaku Poku Asante, George Adjei, Samuel Assafuah, David Dosoo and Seth Owusu-Agyei

Karyotype differentiation in tellin shells (Bivalvia: Tellinidae)

Although Tellinidae is one of the largest and most diverse families of bivalves, its taxonomy is utterly chaotic. This is mainly due to the morphological diversity and homoplasy displayed by their shells and t...

Authors: Daniel García-Souto, Gonzalo Ríos and Juan J. Pasantes