Genotyping of the 520 B. napus accessions was carried out in Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, using the Brassica 60 K Illumina Infinium SNP array. The SNP data were analyzed by Illumina BeadStudio genotyping software, as previously described11 (link). SNPs with minor allele frequencies (MAFs) of <0.05, or lacking a call higher than 0.9 were excluded from analysis. After processing, 31,839 SNP markers were retained for further analysis. To determine the physical localization of SNPs, flanking sequences were subjected to BLASTN searches against the B. napus genome, with an E-value cut-off of 1E-514 (link)47 (link). SNPs with a maximum Bit-Score were retained as unique SNPs, and subjected to further analysis.
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