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By making use of pedigree information and information on marker-genotypes of the parent and F-1 individuals crossed to form an F-2 population, it is possible to carry out a linkage analysis between marker loci and loci affecting quantitative traits in a cross between segregating parent populations that are at fixation for alternative alleles at the QTL, but share the same alleles at the marker loci. For two-allele systems, depending on marker allele frequencies in the parent populations, 2–4 times as many F-2 offspring will have to be raised and scored for markers and quantitative traits in order to provide power equivalent to that obtained in a cross between fully inbred lines. Major savings in number of F-2 offspring raised can be achieved by scoring each parent pair for a large number of markers in each chromosomal region and scoring F-1 and F-2 offspring only for those markers for which the parents were homozygous for alternative alleles. For multiple allele systems, particularly when dealing with hypervariable loci, only 10%–20% additional F-2 offspring will have to be raised and scored to provide power equivalent to that obtained in a cross between inbred lines. When a resource population contains novel favorable alleles at quantitative trait loci that are not present (or rare) in a commercial population, analyses of this sort will enable the loci of interest to be identified, mapped and manipulated effectively in breeding programs.
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Communicated by E. J. Eisen
Contribution no. 2124-E, 1987 series from The Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel
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Beckmann, J.S., Soller, M. Detection of linkage between marker loci and loci affecting quantitative traits in crosses between segregating populations. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 76, 228–236 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00257850
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