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08 Aug 2016 | 16:27 BST

Farm to Genomes: African Rice

Posted by Catherine Potenski | Categories: Evolution, Genomics

Meyer et al., Nature Genetics 2016

Rice is one of the most important crops on the planet, responsible for feeding billions of people. Given this global significance, studying rice in different geographies can be useful and aid in harnessing genetic diversity underlying particular traits and adaptations favorable to different environments. African rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.) is mainly grown in sub-Saharan Africa and known for its stress tolerance. In a new article this week in Nature Genetics, Michael Purugannan and colleagues report the whole genome re-sequencing of 93 African rice landraces from various regions of Western coastal and sub-Saharan Africa. They create a genome-wide SNP map and through comparative genomic analysis study the domestication and population history of African rice. They use their map to perform GWAS for salt tolerance and find 11 significantly associated regions, highlighting the value of this unique genetic resource.  Read more

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  • Africa
  • Agriculture
  • farming
  • Genomics
  • GWAS
  • population genetics
  • rice

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27 Aug 2014 | 12:00 BST

Preliminary look at GWAS articles including dbGaP accessions

Posted by Brooke LaFlamme | Categories: Data sharing, Genetic association, Genomics

Preliminary look at GWAS articles including dbGaP accessions

In this month’s Editorial (doi:10.1038/ng.3088) we mention 66 articles in this journal published between 2008 and 2013 that cite dbGaP accession codes and we took a preliminary look at citation of 13 pairs of GWAS articles with and without a dbGaP accession published on the same trait on the same day in the same journal (in the case of more than two simultaneous articles, non-overlapping pairs were assigned by sequential DOI number). Here are the references and some of the citation information for readers who want to investigate this area further.  Read more

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  • citations
  • collaboration
  • data deposition
  • dbGaP
  • GWAS
  • quality control
  • Scopus
  • September 2014 Editorial

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02 Jul 2014 | 20:34 BST

Love for Nature Genetics

Posted by Brooke LaFlamme | Categories: Genetic association, Nature Genetics standards

Love for Nature Genetics

In a previous blog post, I asked “what makes a Nature Genetics paper?” I have been slow to follow up on the post with my own answers to that question, but in the meantime I would like to share this email that brightened my day (edited for clarity):   … Read more

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  • GWAS
  • reader emails

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