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18565944
TITLE
Multiple-marker mapping for selective DNA pooling within large families.
ABSTRACT
Selective DNA pooling is a very powerful method for quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping. It considerably reduces genotyping costs while maintaining high statistical power. Applied to a daughter design, milk samples of offspring with extreme phenotypic values for a trait of interest are assigned to high and low groups, respectively, and within each group the pooled DNA is used for densitometric estimation of allele frequencies in the 2 groups. A single-marker test for linkage between marker and QTL considers marker allele frequency differences between high and low groups. Single-marker across-sire test statistics are strongly affected by the number of sires that are heterozygous for a given marker and the QTL status (homozygous or heterozygous) of these sires, which decreases the accuracy of QTL mapping. Here we propose a simple method to deal with this problem by taking information from multiple linked markers into account. In particular, given the single-marker test statistics, a multiple-marker method was developed to predict test statistics for markers for which a sire was homozygous (or at any other location on the chromosome). Power and map resolution of the proposed method were assessed by simulation, and we show that for the same data set, multiple-marker mapping performed better than the commonly used single-marker analyses.
DATE PUBLISHED
2008 Jul
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 2008/06/21 09:00
medline 2008/09/04 09:00
entrez 2008/06/21 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Dolezal M Dolezal M M Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor Mendel Str.33, 1180 Vienna, Austria. marlies.dolezal@gmx.at
Schwarzenbacher H Schwarzenbacher H H
Soller M Soller M M
Sölkner J Sölkner J J
Visscher PM Visscher P M PM
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 91
ISSUE: 7
TITLE: Journal of dairy science
ISOABBREVIATION: J. Dairy Sci.
YEAR: 2008
MONTH: Jul
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1525-3198
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: J Dairy Sci
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 0022-0302
NLMUNIQUEID: 2985126R
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Animals
Cattle genetics
Chromosome Mapping veterinary
DNA genetics
Female genetics
Gene Frequency genetics
Genetic Linkage genetics
Genetic Markers genetics
Genotype genetics
Male genetics
Models, Genetic genetics
Quantitative Trait Loci genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
0 Genetic Markers
9007-49-2 DNA
OTHER ID's