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Impact of dense genetic marker maps on plant population genetic studies

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Recent work and publications in human population genetics involving very dense SNP datasets suggest that the use of these markers will become common in plant breeding. The experience of human geneticists futher suggests that attention will need to be paid to the very high degree of genomic heterogeneity of population genetic measures such as genetic diversity. Dense marker sets will also allow more precision of estimates of relatedness between individual plants or pure-breeding lines.

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Weir, B.S. Impact of dense genetic marker maps on plant population genetic studies. Euphytica 154, 355–364 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-006-9283-4

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