Patent ID: 7035739

Claim:
A method for identifying members of a biological pathway in a species, the method comprising: (a) clustering quantitative trait locus data from a plurality of quantitative trait locus analyses to form a quantitative trait locus interaction map, wherein each quantitative trait locus analysis in said plurality of quantitative trait locus analyses is performed for a gene in a plurality of genes in the genome of said species using a genetic marker map and a quantitative trait in order to produce said quantitative trait locus data, wherein, for each quantitative trait locus analysis, said quantitative trait comprises an expression statistic for the gene for which the quantitative trait locus analysis has been performed, for each organism in a plurality of organisms that are members of said species; and wherein said genetic marker map is constructed from a set of genetic markers associated with said species; and (b) identifying a cluster of genes in said quantitative trait locus interaction map, thereby identifying members of said biological pathway.