About the Authors

Minghui Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Minghui Wang, Xiaohua Hu

Affiliation Laboratory of Population & Quantitative Genetics, The State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Institute of Biostatistics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Xiaohua Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Minghui Wang, Xiaohua Hu

Affiliation Laboratory of Population & Quantitative Genetics, The State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Institute of Biostatistics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Gang Li

Affiliation Laboratory of Population & Quantitative Genetics, The State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Institute of Biostatistics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Lindsey J. Leach

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Elena Potokina

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Arnis Druka

Affiliation Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, United Kingdom

Robbie Waugh

Affiliation Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, United Kingdom

Michael J. Kearsey

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Zewei Luo

z.luo@bham.ac.uk or zwluo@fudan.edu.cn

Affiliations Laboratory of Population & Quantitative Genetics, The State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Institute of Biostatistics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH RW MJK ZL. Performed the experiments: MW XH GL EP AD. Analyzed the data: MW GL LJL ZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW GL EP AD RW ZL. Wrote the paper: MW MJK ZL.