Abstract
Programs in agricultural animal genomics have been in existence for about a decade and have generally been successful in developing linkage maps and in mapping some important traits to chromosomal subregions. The next step, mining the economically important genes from these linkage maps, is a formidable one which will almost certainly require extensive use of comparative mapping data. Comparative positional candidate cloning is an attractive approach to gene mining in livestock species. Using data from cattle genome research as an example, I will define the status of comparative maps of livestock species with those of human and mouse and discuss their potential for finding genes for economically important traits in animals by exploiting the rapidly developing human gene map.
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Womack, J.E. (2000). The Essential Role of Comparative Maps in Livestock Genomics. In: Sankoff, D., Nadeau, J.H. (eds) Comparative Genomics. Computational Biology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4309-7_35
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