RT Journal
A1 Bihoreau, Marie Thérèse
A1 Gauguier, Dominique
A1 Kato, Norihiro
A1 Hyne, Gina
A1 Lindpaintner, Klaus
A1 Rapp, John P.
A1 James, Michael R.
A1 Lathrop, G. Mark
T1 A Linkage Map of the Rat Genome Derived from Three F2 Crosses
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 1997 
FD May 01 
VO 7 
IS 5 
SP 434 
OP 440 
DO 10.1101/gr.7.5.434 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/7/5/434.abstract 
AB We report the construction of a dense linkage map of the rat genome integrating 767 simple sequence length polymorphism markers, combined over three crosses with high rates of polymorphism. F2 populations from WKY × S (n = 159), BN × S (n = 91), and BN × GK (n = 139) were selected and genotyped for combinations of microsatellite markers. The loci define 21 linkage groups corresponding to the 20 rat autosomal chromosomes and the X chromosome. The map spans a genetic length of 1998 cM. This combined linkage map should facilitate the advancement of genetic studies for a wide variety of rat models characterized for complex phenotypes.