title: Identification of 10 882 porcine microsatellite sequences and virtual mapping of 4528 of these sequences.
abstract: A total of 10 882 porcine microsatellite repeats were identified in genomic shotgun sequences from the Sino-Danish Pig Genome Sequencing Consortium (http://www.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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal and Veterinary Basic Sciences, Division of Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. pkm@life.ku.dk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Karlskov-Mortensen
authors.forename: Z L
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gorodkin
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Reecy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fredholm
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D019295:Computational Biology; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005819:Genetic Markers; D016678:Genome; D006801:Humans; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D013552:Swine / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers