Preselection of QTL markers enhances accuracy of genomic selection in Norway spruce. Chen, Z., Klingberg, A., Hallingbäck, H. R., & Wu, H. X. BMC Genomics, 24(1):147, March, 2023.
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Genomic prediction (GP) or genomic selection is a method to predict the accumulative effect of all quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in a population by estimating the realized genomic relationships between the individuals and by capturing the linkage disequilibrium between markers and QTLs. Thus, marker preselection is considered a promising method to capture Mendelian segregation effects. Using QTLs detected in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) may improve GP. Here, we performed GWAS and GP in a population with 904 clones from 32 full-sib families using a newly developed 50 k SNP Norway spruce array. Through GWAS we identified 41 SNPs associated with budburst stage (BB) and the largest effect association explained 5.1% of the phenotypic variation (PVE). For the other five traits such as growth and wood quality traits, only 2 – 13 associations were observed and the PVE of the strongest effects ranged from 1.2% to 2.0%. GP using approximately 100 preselected SNPs, based on the smallest p-values from GWAS showed the greatest predictive ability (PA) for the trait BB. For the other traits, a preselection of 2000–4000 SNPs, was found to offer the best model fit according to the Akaike information criterion being minimized. But PA-magnitudes from GP using such selections were still similar to that of GP using all markers. Analyses on both real-life and simulated data also showed that the inclusion of a large QTL SNP in the model as a fixed effect could improve PA and accuracy of GP provided that the PVE of the QTL was ≥ 2.5%.
@article{chen_preselection_2023,
	title = {Preselection of {QTL} markers enhances accuracy of genomic selection in {Norway} spruce},
	volume = {24},
	issn = {1471-2164},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-023-09250-3},
	doi = {10.1186/s12864-023-09250-3},
	abstract = {Genomic prediction (GP) or genomic selection is a method to predict the accumulative effect of all quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in a population by estimating the realized genomic relationships between the individuals and by capturing the linkage disequilibrium between markers and QTLs. Thus, marker preselection is considered a promising method to capture Mendelian segregation effects. Using QTLs detected in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) may improve GP. Here, we performed GWAS and GP in a population with 904 clones from 32 full-sib families using a newly developed 50 k SNP Norway spruce array. Through GWAS we identified 41 SNPs associated with budburst stage (BB) and the largest effect association explained 5.1\% of the phenotypic variation (PVE). For the other five traits such as growth and wood quality traits, only 2 – 13 associations were observed and the PVE of the strongest effects ranged from 1.2\% to 2.0\%. GP using approximately 100 preselected SNPs, based on the smallest p-values from GWAS showed the greatest predictive ability (PA) for the trait BB. For the other traits, a preselection of 2000–4000 SNPs, was found to offer the best model fit according to the Akaike information criterion being minimized. But PA-magnitudes from GP using such selections were still similar to that of GP using all markers. Analyses on both real-life and simulated data also showed that the inclusion of a large QTL SNP in the model as a fixed effect could improve PA and accuracy of GP provided that the PVE of the QTL was ≥ 2.5\%.},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2023-04-11},
	journal = {BMC Genomics},
	author = {Chen, Zhi-Qiang and Klingberg, Adam and Hallingbäck, Henrik R. and Wu, Harry X.},
	month = mar,
	year = {2023},
	keywords = {GWAS, Genomic prediction, Marker preselection, Picea abies},
	pages = {147},
}

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