Abstract
A total of 10 882 porcine microsatelite repeats were identified in genomic shotgun sequences from the Sino-Danish Pig Genome Sequencing Consortium (http://piggenome.dk). Of these, 4528 microsatellites were placed on a pig-human comparative map by BLAST analysis of porcine sequences against the human genome (BLAST cut-off threshold = 1 x 10-5). All microsatellite sequences placed on the comparative map are accessible at http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb/pig.html. These sequences increase the number of identified microsatellites in the porcine genome by several orders of magnitude. They are a new resource of microsatellite sequences for generating markers to be used in linkage studies and in fine mapping and positional cloning of quantitative trait loci.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Animal Genetics |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 401-405 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISSN | 0268-9146 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- Former LIFE faculty
- comparative map
- genetic marker
- linkage map
- microsatellite
- pig
- positional quantitative trait loci mining