Article
Informativeness of microsatellite markers.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2013
Reyes-Valdés M Humberto
Abstract excerpt
Simple sequence repeats (SSR) are extensively used as genetic markers for studies of diversity, genetic mapping, and cultivar discrimination. The informativeness of a given SSR locus or a loci group depends on the number of alleles, their frequency distribution, as well as the kind of application. Here I describe several methods for calculating marker informativeness, all of them suitable for SSR polymorphisms,...
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