title: Bovine chromosome 4 workshop: consensus and comprehensive linkage maps.
abstract: The report of the bovine chromosome 4 (BTA4) workshop is presented. Six laboratories contributed a total of 30,168 informative meioses from 62 loci. Twenty-two loci were typed by at least two independent laboratories and were used to construct a consensus linkage map of BTA4. The remaining 40 loci were subsequently incorporated into a comprehensive map. The sex-averaged consensus map covered 131.4 cM. The female map was 124.3 cM in length, while the male map was 134.3 cM. The comprehensive sex-averaged map spanned 141.6 cM. The length of the female and male comprehensive maps were 123.1 cM and 156.4 cM, respectively. Average genetic distance between loci was 6 and 2.3 cM for the consensus and comprehensive linkage maps, respectively.
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS, Clay Center, NE 68933-0166, USA. casas@email.marc.usda.gov
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authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Casas
authors.forename: W
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authors.lastname: Barendse
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Beever
authors.forename: B M
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authors.lastname: Burns
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authors.lastname: Davis
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authors.lastname: Erhardt
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authors.lastname: Förster
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authors.lastname: Gomez-Raya
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authors.lastname: Kalm
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authors.lastname: Kappes
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authors.lastname: Klungland
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authors.lastname: Lewin
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authors.lastname: Lien
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authors.lastname: Olsaker
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authors.lastname: Reinsch
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authors.lastname: Schwerin
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authors.lastname: Song
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authors.lastname: Taylor
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authors.lastname: Thomsen
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authors.lastname: Våge
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authors.lastname: Wu
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mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D004493:Education