Edward S. Buckler

TL;DR: TASSEL (Trait Analysis by aSSociation, Evolution and Linkage) implements general linear model and mixed linear model approaches for controlling population and family structure and allows for linkage disequilibrium statistics to be calculated and visualized graphically.

TL;DR: A procedure for constructing GBS libraries based on reducing genome complexity with restriction enzymes (REs) is reported, which is simple, quick, extremely specific, highly reproducible, and may reach important regions of the genome that are inaccessible to sequence capture approaches.

TL;DR: A unified mixed-model approach to account for multiple levels of relatedness simultaneously as detected by random genetic markers is developed and provides a powerful complement to currently available methods for association mapping.

TL;DR: This study identifies ∼3.6 million SNPs by sequencing 517 rice landraces and constructed a high-density haplotype map of the rice genome using a novel data-imputation method, demonstrating that an approach integrating second-generation genome sequencing and GWAS can be used as a powerful complementary strategy to classical biparental cross-mapping for dissecting complex traits in rice.

TL;DR: A compression approach is reported, called 'compressed MLM', that decreases the effective sample size of such datasets by clustering individuals into groups and a complementary approach, 'population parameters previously determined' (P3D), that eliminates the need to re-compute variance components.