Why are some plants taller? Researchers on the unveiling of genetic variation associated with complex quantitative phenotypes

Giovanni Marques de Castro; Felipe Campelo; Francisco Pereira Lobo

doi:10.1016/j.patter.2023.100774

Why are some plants taller? Researchers on the unveiling of genetic variation associated with complex quantitative phenotypes

Patterns (N Y). 2023 Jun 9;4(6):100774. doi: 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100774.

Authors

Giovanni Marques de Castro¹, Felipe Campelo², Francisco Pereira Lobo³

Affiliations

¹ Nonhuman Primate Reagent Resource, UMASS Chan Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
³ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Abstract

Francisco Pereira Lobo, Giovanni Marques de Castro, and Felipe Campelo are part of an international team of collaborators that developed CALANGO, a comparative genomics tool to investigate quantitative genotype-phenotype relationships. Their Patterns article highlights how the tool integrates species-centric data to perform genome-wide search and detect genes potentially involved in the emergence of complex quantitative traits across species. Here, they talk about their view of data science, their experience with interdisciplinary research, and the potential applications of their tool.

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