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Deconstructing maize population structure.

J K Pritchard
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Association studies have rarely been used in plant genetics, in part because of the risk of false positives caused by population structure. A study of flowering time in maize makes the first use of recent 'structured association' methods-statistical approaches that use independent loci to control for the effects of structure and admixture.

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J K Pritchard. 2001. Deconstructing maize population structure.. https://doi.org/10.1038/90026

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