Abstract
Efficient construction of large-scale linkage maps is highly desired in current gene mapping projects. To evaluate the performance of available approaches in the literature, four published methods, the insertion (IN), seriation (SER), neighbor mapping (NM), and unidirectional growth (UG) were compared on the basis of simulated F2 data with various population sizes, interferences, missing genotype rates, and mis-genotyping rates. Simulation results showed that the IN method outperformed, or at least was comparable to, the other three methods. These algorithms were also applied to a real data set and results showed that the linkage order obtained by the IN algorithm was superior to the other methods. Thus, this study suggests that the IN method should be used when constructing large-scale linkage maps.
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This study was supported in part by the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Mississippi State University and the Agricultural Experiment Station of South Dakota State University, and by the National Institutes of Health Grant R01DA025095. The authors would like to appreciate Drs. David Fang and Michael Gonda for their helpful comments. We also want to express our great appreciations for the editor and three anonymous reviewers for their critical and helpful comments that greatly improved the quality of this paper.
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Wu, J., Jenkins, J.N., McCarty, J.C. et al. Comparisons of four approximation algorithms for large-scale linkage map construction. Theor Appl Genet 123, 649–655 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-011-1614-8
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