title: Genetic analysis and linkage mapping in a resource pig population using microsatellite markers.
abstract: The use of markers and linkage map construction are important for QTL mapping in pigs. In this article, the genetic characteristics were studied and the linkage map was constructed in a pig resource population including 214 individuals by typing 39 microsatellite marker loci on Sus scrofa chromosomes, SSC4, SSC6, SSC7, SSC8, and SSC13. Results indicated that the average allele number, the average observed heterozygosity (H(0)), and the average polymorphism information content (PIC) in F(1) and F(2) population were 3.2, 0.528, 0.463 and 3.2, 0.496, 0.447, respectively. In the pig resource population, the average informative meiosis (IM) was 217.4 (44-316), and the average linkage map length between the two sexes on the five chromosomes were 172.3 cM (SSC4), 168.7 cM (SSC6), 191.7 cM (SSC7), 197.3 cM (SSC8), and 178.3 cM (SSC13). The orders of microsatellite marker loci in the linkage maps were identical to, but the length was greater than, those of USDA-MARC reference map. The results of this research showed the genetic relationship and genetic characteristics of the microsatellite markers in the pig resource family population, and the linkage map could be used to for QTL mapping in the subsequent study.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
authors.forename: Jinghu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yuanzhu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zuo
authors.forename: Minggang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.forename: Siwen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Feng'e
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Jialian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D033481:Chromosomes, Mammalian / Q000235:genetics; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D034421:Sus scrofa / Q000235:genetics*