Open Access Research article

Identification of QTLs controlling gene expression networks defined a priori

Daniel J Kliebenstein1*, Marilyn AL West1, Hans van Leeuwen1, Olivier Loudet2, RW Doerge3 and Dina A St Clair1

1 University of California-Davis, Department of Plant Sciences, Mail Stop 3, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616-8780, USA

2 INRA, Station de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes, Centre de Versailles, 78026Versailles, France

3 Purdue University, Department of Statistics, Mathematical Sciences Building, 150 North University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:308 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-308

Published: 16 June 2006

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Gene members of the gene expression networks. aNetwork indicates the network that the gene is a member of. bGene is the Atg nomenclature for each gene listed. c > 50% Cis QTL indicates whether the gene has a cis-eQTL controlling greater than 50% of the expression phenotypic difference.

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eQTL positions for all individual genes in this study. aNetwork indicates the network that the gene is a member of. bGene is the Atg gene nomenclature for each gene listed. ceQTL position indicates the chromosome (I, II, III, IV or V) and the cM of the eQTL LOD peak on that chromosome, separated by a period. The position of all significant eQTLs for each gene is shown. deQTL # is the number of eQTLs identified for each individual gene.

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Traits used for QTL analysis in this study. aQTL Name is the abbreviation utilized for that trait. bTrait is the phenotype measured to identify the associated QTLs. cReference is the literature reference in which the trait is described. Unpublished QTL data are either from the Loudet or Kliebenstein laboratories.

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