Bovine chromosome 4 workshop: consensus and comprehensive linkage maps

✍ Scribed by E Casas; W Barendse; J E Beever; B M Burns; S K Davis; G Erhardt; M Förster; L Gomez-Raya; E Kalm; S M Kappes; H Klungland; H A Lewin; S Lien; I Olsaker; N Reinsch; M Schwerin; Y Song; J F Taylor; H Thomsen; D I Våge; X Wu; N Xu; C-C Yeh

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0268-9146
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2052.1999.00529.x

✦ Synopsis

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.