Plant & Animal Genomes XV Conference

January 13-17, 2007
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

The Extent Of Linkage Disequilibrium In Rice

Kristie Mather² , Susan McCouch³ , Carlos Bustamante³ , Michael Purugganan¹

¹  Department of Biology and Center for Comparative Functional Genomics, 100 Washington Square East, 1009 Silver Building, New York University, NY, NY 10003

²  Department of Genetics, Box 7614, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695

³  Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850

Determining the extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) is a key step in identifying the evolutionary forces that impact genome diversity as well as provide guidance on the possible resolution of candidate gene association studies. Using information from several 500-kb genomic regions in O. sativa and O. rufipogon, we discuss the levels and patterns of LD in the domesticated and wild rice genomes.