Substantial advances have been made in the genetic improvement of agriculturally important
animal and plant populations through artificial selection on quantitative traits. Most of this …

… in Sweden, immediate and 1-year results of PTA and surgery were equivalent, and patients
who underwent PTA had a significantly shorter hospital stay. It is important to note, however, …

Loss or gain of DNA methylation can affect gene expression and is sometimes transmitted
across generations. Such epigenetic alterations are thus a possible source of heritable …

Quantifying the impact of heritable epigenetic variation on complex traits is an emerging
challenge in population genetics. Here, we analyze a population of isogenic Arabidopsis lines …

… Hospital, F. 2001 Size of donor chromosome segments around introgressed loci and
reduction of linkage drag in marker-assisted backcross programs. Genetics 158, 1363–1379. …

… . Suppose an intermediate genotype H is to be obtained from the cross of two (nonfounding)
parents H m and H f . Rather than cross H m and H f directly, we first cross each separately …

… on background selection efficiency was investigated by HOSPITAL et al. (1992, Tables 1 and
2 … Conversely, the efficiency on carrier chromosomes in Table '7 is lower than in HOSPITAL …

We investigate the use of markers to hasten the recovery of the recipient genome during an
introgression breeding program. The effects of time and intensity of selection, population size…

We model selection at a locus affecting a quantitative trait (QTL) in the presence of genetic
variance due to other loci. The dynamics at the QTL are related to the initial genotypic value …

We extensively phenotyped 6000 Arabidopsis plants with experimentally perturbed DNA
methylomes as well as a diverse panel of natural accessions in a common garden. We found …