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. 2003 Sep;165(1):277–285. doi: 10.1093/genetics/165.1.277

Haplotype sharing refines the location of an imprinted quantitative trait locus with major effect on muscle mass to a 250-kb chromosome segment containing the porcine IGF2 gene.

Carine Nezer 1, Catherine Collette 1, Laurence Moreau 1, Benoît Brouwers 1, Jong-Joo Kim 1, Elisabetta Giuffra 1, Nadine Buys 1, Leif Andersson 1, Michel Georges 1
PMCID: PMC1462731  PMID: 14504235

Abstract

We herein describe the fine mapping of an imprinted QTL with major effect on muscle mass that was previously assigned to distal SSC2p in the pig. The proposed approach exploits linkage disequilibrium in combination with QTL genotyping by marker-assisted segregation analysis. By identifying a haplotype shared by all "Q" chromosomes, we map the QTL to an approximately 250-kb chromosome segment containing INS and IGF2 as the only known paternally expressed genes. This considerably reinforces the candidacy of these genes, justifying their detailed analysis.

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