Genetic linkage map by U.S. Meat Animal Research Center. Sus scrofa

The U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) has constructed a genetic linkage map for Sus scrofa. The swine mapping population consisted of eight litters resulting from mating two white composite crossbred boars mated to eight Chinese (Meishan Minzhu or Fengjing) or Duroc x white composite crossbred sows. Two sires, eight dams and 94 progeny were genotyped. No grandparents were genotyped. The map includes 1266 markers; total map distance is 2480 cM. The map data have been obtained from MARC, the Meat Animal Research Center (Rohrer et al. Genome Res 6(5):371-91,1996).