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Analysis of the sheep genome.
Physiological genomics - 21 Dec 2001
Cockett N E, Shay T L, Smit M
Abstract excerpt
The identification of genes controlling several traits of interest in sheep has been accomplished by positional candidate cloning. In these studies, the trait is first mapped to a specific chromosomal region by linkage analysis, which requires families that are segregating for the trait and for polymorphic markers. Microsatellite markers are usually used for these analyses because of their extensive genetic...
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