Justin N Vaughn, Walid Korani, Josh Clevenger, Peggy Ozias-Akins
Gene discovery reveals new biology, expands the utility of marker-assisted selection, and enables targeted mutagenesis. Still, such discoveries can take over a decade. We present a general strategy, "Agile Genetics," that uses nested, structured populations to overcome common limits on gene resolution. Extensive simulation work on realistic genetic architectures shows that, at population sizes of >5000 samples, single gene-resolution can be achieved using bulk segregant pools. At this scale, read depth and technical replication become major drivers of resolution...
May 20, 2024: BioEssays: News and Reviews in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology