Samples of leaf tissue from each hybrid were sent to the DuPont Pioneer
® Company, where DNA extraction and genotyping was performed. The latter was performed using the Illumina GoldenGate
® Platform (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA), with an array of 768 SNPs [17 (
link)]. The SNP panel was developed by Nelson et al. [18 ] to make inferences about the population structure, origins and relationships between American commercial hybrid parents with Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA) expired.
The NAM parental lines were genotyped using an array of 1,536 SNP markers on the Illumina GoldenGate
® platform, and the data are available at
www.panzea.org. Using the NAM genotype data, only the SNPs shared with the Brazilian commercial germplasms were analyzed.
The SNP genotypic data were converted into numeric digits (“1”, “2” and “3”) by means of the Scrime package [19 ] of the R program [20 ] (Vienna, Austria). Quality control of the genomic data was performed using the parameters of call rate (90%) and minor frequency allele (MAF, 5%) using the HapEstXXR package [21 ] of the R program.
de Andrade L.R., Fritsche Neto R., Granato Í.S., Sant’Ana G.C., Morais P.P, & Borém A. (2016). Genetic Vulnerability and the Relationship of Commercial Germplasms of Maize in Brazil with the Nested Association Mapping Parents. PLoS ONE, 11(10), e0163739.