Detecting directional and non-directional epistasis in bi-parental populations using genomic data

Rio Simon, Charcosset Alain, Moreau Laurence, Mary-Huard Tristan. 2023. Detecting directional and non-directional epistasis in bi-parental populations using genomic data. Genetics, 224 (3):iyad089, 10 p.

Résumé : Epistasis, commonly defined as interaction effects between alleles of different loci, is an important genetic component of the variation of phenotypic traits in natural and breeding populations. In addition to its impact on variance, epistasis can also affect the expected performance of a population and is then referred to as directional epistasis. Before the advent of genomic data, the existence of epistasis (both directional and non-directional) was investigated based on complex and expensive mating schemes involving several generations evaluated for a trait of interest. In this study, we propose a methodology to detect the presence of epistasis based on simple inbred biparental populations, both genotyped and phenotyped, ideally along with their parents. Thanks to genomic data, parental proportions as well as shared parental proportions between inbred individuals can be estimated. They allow the evaluation of epistasis through a test of the expected performance for directional epistasis or the variance of genetic values. This methodology was applied to two large multiparental populations, i.e. the American maize and soybean nested association mapping populations, evaluated for different traits. Results showed significant epistasis, especially for the test of directional epistasis, e.g. the increase in anthesis to silking interval observed in most maize inbred progenies or the decrease in grain yield observed in several soybean inbred progenies. In general, the effects detected suggested that shuffling allelic associations of both elite parents had a detrimental effect on the performance of their progeny. This methodology is implemented in the EpiTest R-package and can be applied to any bi/multiparental inbred population evaluated for a trait of interest.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : génome, phénotype, méthodologie, variation génétique, interaction génique, génétique des populations, variation phénotypique

Mots-clés libres : Directional epistasis, Bi-parental population, Genomics, Quantitative genetics

Classification Agris : F30 - Génétique et amélioration des plantes
U10 - Informatique, mathématiques et statistiques

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 2 (2019-) - Transitions agroécologiques

Auteurs et affiliations

• Rio Simon, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR AGAP (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0001-7014-8789 - auteur correspondant
• Charcosset Alain, INRAE (FRA)
• Moreau Laurence, INRAE (FRA)
• Mary-Huard Tristan, INRAE (FRA)

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