Table 1.
Markers represented on SIAG-MARC bovine autosome linkage maps.
| Informative Meiosesa,b | ||||
| Marker type | N | Mean | Minimum | Maximum |
| microsatellite | 3612 | 207 | 11 | 366 |
| single nucleotide polymorphism | ||||
| new SNPc | 735 | 48 | 10 | 149 |
| other SNPd | 178 | 52 | 13 | 200 |
| othere | 60 | 69 | 16 | 307 |
| All types | 4585 | 174 | 10 | 366 |
aTotal informative meioses.
b 412 potential informative meioses from bovine reference population.
c newly developed and mapped EST- and BAC-based SNP.
d SNP marker data contributed by other projects.
e other types include sequence tagged allelic restriction sites (31), erythrocyte antigens (10), single strand conformational polymorphisms (6), serum protein markers (5), phenotypic observations (2) and sequence tagged site (2) markers from previous bovine maps[4,5,12].