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- From: tmo@POPGEN.BIOLOGY.UMT.EDU (Thomas Mitchell-Olds)
- Newsgroups: bionet.genome.arabidopsis
- Subject: Finding close flanking markers
- Message-ID: <9212231819.AA12108@popgen.biology.umt.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:19:24 GMT
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- Recently zrsung@insect.berkeley.edu asked:
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- >Dear members of Arabidopsis community,
- >I'm in a desperate need of new (not listed on H. Goodman &
- >E.Meyerowitz maps) RFLP markers on chromosome 5.They should be close to
- >the RFLP marker m247.
- >Also, I'm looking for YAC clones for the marker m247.
- >Any information regarding this matter will be appreciated.
- > Chang-Hsien Yang, Dept.of Plant Biology, UC Berkeley /
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- In the absence of mapped markers that are very close to an area of interest,
- a strategy based on bulk segregant analysis may be helpful. Michelmore
- (PNAS 88:9828) and Skolnik (PNAS 89:1477) have had good success with a similar methods.
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- 1) Obtain the Dupont recombinant inbred lines from the Ohio stock center.
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- 2) Get the RFLP genotypes for these lines from the Arabidopsis database.
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- 3) For markers near your region of interest, identify recombinant inbred
- lines fixed for each allele at nearby markers. Make pooled DNA from individuals
- in each group, and compare RAPD markers between the two groups. Polymorphic markers
- in the region of interest will show differences between the two DNA pools,
- while markers elsewhere in the genome will give identical banding patterns.
- For example, assume the Arabidopsis genome is 500 cM, and your bulk segregant
- analysis compared individuals differing over 10 cM. On average, 2% of your
- RAPD markers will be in the 10 cM region near your gene. Assuming two
- polymorphic bands per RAPD primer, you could screen 500 primers (1,000 loci),
- and find about 20 markers near your gene. On average, several markers should be less
- than 0.5 cM from your gene. You have a 95% chance that your gene of interest is
- flanked by two RAPD markers defining an interval SMALLER than 0.75 cM. These
- nearby RAPDs can then be used to identify cosmids or YACs. This strategy would
- be much easier if DuPont would release information on their mapped primers.
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- Good luck!
-
- Tom Mitchell-Olds
- tmo@selway.umt.edu
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