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We investigated protocol designs for gene mapping in livestock. The optimization of the population structure was based on the empirical variance of the recombination rate estimator. We concluded that a mixture of half-sib and full-sib families is preferred to half-sib families; a knowledge of parental phases does not improve the quality of the estimation for typical livestock families with five offspring or more; and measurements of the genotype of the mates in half-sib families are not useful. Graphs and algebraic approximations for the practical choice of family size and structure are given.
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Elsen, J.M., Mangin, B., Goffinet, B. et al. Optimal structure of protocol designs for building genetic linkage maps in livestock. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 88, 129–134 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00222405
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00222405