Mutations of short tandem repeats explain abundant trait heritability in Arabidopsis
Our results reveal the evolutionary dynamics of STRs, and highlight the importance of STR variation as an important contributor to missing heritability in regulating complex traits.
Authors
- Sridevi Sureshkumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-6762)
- Juan Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5056-5286)
- Sureshkumar Balasubramanian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1057-2606)
- Ya‐Long Guo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4643-4889)
- Craig Dent (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5688-3824)
- Yong‐Chao Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1378-4049)
- Zhiqin Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5148-1161)
Institutions
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Beijing Botanical Garden (CN)
- Institute of Botany of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (DE)
- Institute of Botany (CN)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- China National Botanical Garden
- Monash University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Genome biology
- Published
- 2025-08-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03720-5
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- RNA Research and Splicing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.42
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Southwest Forestry University
- National Science and Technology Major Project
- University of California, San Diego
- Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences