Uma abordagem bayesiana para mapeamento de QTLs em populações experimentais / A Bayesian approach for mapping QTL in experimental populations

AUTOR(ES)

Andréia da Silva Meyer

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Many traits in plants and animals have quantitative nature, influenced by multiple genes. With the new molecular techniques, it has been possible to map the loci, which control the quantitative traits, called QTL (Quantitative Trait Loci). Mapping a QTL means to identify its position in the genome, as well as to estimate its genetics effects. The great difficulty of mapping QTL relates to the fact that the number of QTL is unknown. Bayesian approaches used with Markov Chain Monte Carlo method (MCMC) have been applied to infer QTL number, their positions in the genome and their genetic effects. The challenge is to obtain the sample from the joined distribution posterior of these parameters, since the number of QTL may be considered unknown and hence the dimension of the parametric space changes according to the number of QTL in the model. In this study, a Bayesian approach was applied, using the statistical program R, in order to map QTL, considering multiples QTL and epistasis effects in the model. Models were adjusted with the crescent number of QTL and Bayes factor was used to select the most suitable model and, consequently, to estimate the number of QTL that control interesting phenotype. To evaluate the efficiency of the applied methodology, a simulation study was done, considering two different experimental populations: backcross and F2, accomplishing the simulation study for both populations, considering models with and without epistasis. The applied approach resulted to be very efficient, considering that for all the used situations, the selected model was the one containing the real number of QTL used in the data simulation. Moreover, the QTL mapping of three phenotypes of tropical corn was done: plant height, corn-cob height and grain production, using the applied methodology and the results were compared to the results found by the CIM method.

ASSUNTO(S)

mapeamento genético mcmc qtl mapping. bayesian inference método de monte carlo. bayes factor inferência baysiana genética estatística

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