title: Characterization of 42 highly polymorphic bovine microsatellite markers.
abstract: We have isolated 42 highly polymorphic microsatellite (GT/CA)n markers from Japanese black cattle Wagyu (Bos taurus). Forty-one of the markers were assigned to bovine autosomes with lod scores > 6, through linkage analyses performed on the International Bovine Reference Family Panel (IBRP). The remaining marker showed X-linked inheritance. These markers exhibited an average heterozygosity value of 0.67 with between four and 17 alleles on the IBRP.
authors.affiliation: Shirakawa Institute of Animal Genetics Livestock Technology Association of Japan, Fukushima, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirano
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakane
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mizoshita
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamakuchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inoue-Murayama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Barendse
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002417:Cattle / Q000235:genetics*; D017931:DNA Primers; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006579:Heterozygote; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D014960:X Chromosome
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D005819:Genetic Markers