Quantitative trait locus

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A quantitative trait locus (QTL) is a genomic locus wherein sequence variation correlates with variation of a quantitative trait. QTLs are mapped by identifying which molecular markers (such as SNPs or AFLPs) correlate with an observed trait.

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