Abstract
Genetic markers facilitate the study of inheritance and the cloning of genes by genetic approaches. Molecular markers detect differences in DNA sequence, and are thus less ambiguous than phenotypic markers, which require gene expression. We have demonstrated a molecular approach to the mapping of mutant genes using RAPD markers and pooling of individuals based on phenotype. To map genes by phenotypic pooling a strain carrying a mutation is crossed to a strain that is homozygous for the wild-type allele of the corresponding gene. A set of primers corresponding to mapped RAPDs distributed throughout the genome and in coupling phase with respect to the wild type parent is then used to amplify DNA from wild type and mutant pools of F2 individuals. Linkage between the mutant gene and the RAPD markers is visualized by the absence of the corresponding RAPD DNA bands in the mutant pool. We developed a mathematical model for calculating the probability of linkage between RAPDs and target genes and we successfully tested this approach with the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
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