title: Alignment of the PiGMaP and USDA linkage maps of porcine chromosomes 3 and 9.
abstract: The European Pig Gene Mapping Project (PiGMaP) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) porcine linkage maps for chromosomes 3 and 9 have been aligned by typing three USDA microsatellites from chromosome 3 and five from chromosome 9 on the PiGMaP reference families. Using the CRIMAP linkage analysis package, revised multipoint linkage maps were constructed for chromosome 3 and 9. Inclusion of these USDA markers in the multipoint analysis resulted in an increase in length of 47% and 33% respectively for these two PiGMaP linkage groups. This increase in size is mainly the result of extension of the ends of both linkage groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Breeding, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Groenen
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: de Vries
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: van der Poel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005819:Genetic Markers; D016678:Genome; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013552:Swine / Q000235:genetics*; D014481:United States; D016885:United States Department of Agriculture
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers