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A local score approach improves GWAS resolution and detects minor QTL: application to Medicago truncatula quantitative disease resistance to multiple Aphanomyces euteiches isolates.


ABSTRACT: Quantitative trait loci (QTL) with small effects, which are pervasive in quantitative phenotypic variation, are difficult to detect in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). To improve their detection, we propose to use a local score approach that accounts for the surrounding signal due to linkage disequilibrium, by accumulating association signals from contiguous single markers. Simulations revealed that, in a GWAS context with high marker density, the local score approach outperforms single SNP p-value-based tests for detecting minor QTL (heritability of 5-10%) and is competitive with regard to alternative methods, which also aggregate p-values. Using more than five million SNPs, this approach was applied to identify loci involved in Quantitative Disease Resistance (QDR) to different isolates of the plant root rot pathogen Aphanomyces euteiches, from a GWAS performed on a collection of 174 accessions of the model legume Medicago truncatula. We refined the position of a previously reported major locus, underlying MYB/NB-ARC/tyrosine kinase candidate genes conferring resistance to two closely related A. euteiches isolates belonging to pea pathotype I. We also discovered a diversity of minor resistance QTL, not detected using p-value-based tests, some of which being putatively shared in response to pea (pathotype I and III) and/or alfalfa (race 1 and 2) isolates. Candidate genes underlying these QTL suggest pathogen effector recognition and plant proteasome as key functions associated with M. truncatula resistance to A. euteiches. GWAS on any organism can benefit from the local score approach to uncover many weak-effect QTL.

SUBMITTER: Bonhomme M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6781128 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A local score approach improves GWAS resolution and detects minor QTL: application to Medicago truncatula quantitative disease resistance to multiple Aphanomyces euteiches isolates.

Bonhomme Maxime M   Fariello Maria Inés MI   Navier Hélène H   Hajri Ahmed A   Badis Yacine Y   Miteul Henri H   Samac Deborah A DA   Dumas Bernard B   Baranger Alain A   Jacquet Christophe C   Pilet-Nayel Marie-Laure ML  

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Quantitative trait loci (QTL) with small effects, which are pervasive in quantitative phenotypic variation, are difficult to detect in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). To improve their detection, we propose to use a local score approach that accounts for the surrounding signal due to linkage disequilibrium, by accumulating association signals from contiguous single markers. Simulations revealed that, in a GWAS context with high marker density, the local score approach outperforms single S  ...[more]

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