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Marker panels for genealogy-based mapping, breed demographics, and inference-of-ancestry in the dog.
Animal biotechnology - 1 Jan 2012
Wong Aaron K, Ruhe Alison L, Biswas Shameek, Robertson Kathryn R, Ali Ammar, Akey Joshua M, Neff Mark W
Abstract excerpt
Short tandem repeat polymorphisms (STRPs) are robust and informative markers for a range of genetic applications. STRPs are advantageous in experimental designs that derive power from sampling many individuals rather than many loci (e.g., pedigree-based studies, fine-scale mapping, and conservation genetics). STRPs have proven useful for vetting samples prior to costly high-density SNP analysis. Here we present...
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