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Genetics, Vol. 160, 779-792, February 2002, Copyright © 2002

Joint Linkage and Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci in Natural Populations

Rongling Wua, Chang-Xing Maa,b, and George Casellaa
a Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
b Department of Statistics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China

Corresponding author: Rongling Wu, 533 McCarty Hall C, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611., rwu{at}stat.ufl.edu (E-mail)

Communicating editor: Y.-X. FU

Linkage analysis and allelic association (also referred to as linkage disequilibrium) studies are two major approaches for mapping genes that control simple or complex traits in plants, animals, and humans. But these two approaches have limited utility when used alone, because they use only part of the information that is available for a mapping population. More recently, a new mapping strategy has been designed to integrate the advantages of linkage analysis and linkage disequilibrium analysis for genome mapping in outcrossing populations. The new strategy makes use of a random sample from a panmictic population and the open-pollinated progeny of the sample. In this article, we extend the new strategy to map quantitative trait loci (QTL), using molecular markers within the EM-implemented maximum-likelihood framework. The most significant advantage of this extension is that both linkage and linkage disequilibrium between a marker and QTL can be estimated simultaneously, thus increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of genome mapping for recalcitrant outcrossing species. Simulation studies are performed to test the statistical properties of the MLEs of genetic and genomic parameters including QTL allele frequency, QTL effects, QTL position, and the linkage disequilibrium of the QTL and a marker. The potential utility of our mapping strategy is discussed.




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