Determining haploblocks and haplotypes in the MAGIC winter wheat population WM-800 based on the wheat 15k Infinium and the 135k Affymetrix SNP arrays

Haplotypes are derived from single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). They are beneficial (i) to remove redundant sequence information in genetic populations and, more important, (ii) to distinguish more than two variants/alleles at a genomic locus. A haploblock locus, made of multiple haplotypes, is very useful in multiparent-advanced-generation-intercross (MAGIC) populations, where, ideally, multiple founder alleles need to be distinguished at each locus to subsequently carry out efficient genome-wide association analysis studies (GWAS).

In this regard, the dataset contains genotype matrices (made of SNP, haploblock and haplotype data) for 800 lines of the MAGIC WHEAT population WM-800 (Sannemann et al. 2018). The datasets are based on genotyping the lines with both the already published wheat 15k Infinium SNP array (Sannemann et al. 2018) and the new wheat 135k Affymetrix SNP array.