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A high utility integrated map of the pig genome

Sean J Humphray1*, Carol E Scott1, Richard Clark1, Brandy Marron2, Clare Bender1, Nick Camm1, Jayne Davis1, Andrew Jenks1, Angela Noon1, Manish Patel1, Harminder Sehra1, Fengtang Yang1, Margarita B Rogatcheva2, Denis Milan3, Patrick Chardon4, Gary Rohrer5, Dan Nonneman5, Pieter de Jong6, Stacey N Meyers2, Alan Archibald7, Jonathan E Beever2, Lawrence B Schook2 and Jane Rogers1

1 The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA UK

2 College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA

3 Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, INRA, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France

4 INRA-CEA, Domaine de Vilvert, 78352, Jouy en Josas cedex, France

5 US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, US Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE 68933-0166, USA

6 Children's Hospital Oakland-BACPAC Resources, Oakland, California 94609, USA

7 Roslin Institute, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS, UK

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R139 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-7-r139

Published: 11 July 2007

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Additional data file 1:

Table 1: breakdown of BES matches to human by library. Table 2: pig BES matches to human genes. Figure 1: plot of RH map (cR) versus physical map (Mb) position for markers on SSC1.

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Additional data file 2:

Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) results for the most centromeric CH242-166N14 (red) and most telomeric clone CH242-248H14 (green) on SSC13.

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