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Characterization of 42 highly polymorphic bovine microsatellite markers.
Animal genetics - 1 Oct 1996
Hirano T, Nakane S, Mizoshita K, Yamakuchi H, Inoue-Murayama M, Watanabe T, Barendse W, Sugimoto Y
Abstract excerpt
We have isolated 42 highly polymorphic microsatellite (GT/CA)n markers from Japanese black cattle Wagyu (Bos taurus). Forty-one of the markers were assigned to bovine autosomes with lod scores > 6, through linkage analyses performed on the International Bovine Reference Family Panel (IBRP). The remaining marker showed X-linked inheritance. These markers exhibited an average heterozygosity value of 0.67 with...
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