Project Background

Over the last few years, our groups have made major contributions to the making of genetic maps, in pig through the EC co-ordinated Pig Gene Mapping Project (PiGMaP). This has required the development and characterisation of new polymorphic markers, and the setting-up of genotyping facilities and of associated databases. More recently, in work leading to this proposal, a pilot study in pig biodiversity has been carried on, and a number of well-characterised and robust microsatellite loci have already been selected.

This PiGMaP pilot study was performed using 27 microsatellites (sets I, II and III in this project) and 11 breeds of pigs.
Background information on the panel of markers used in the pilot study which are the foundation of the panel of markers to be used in this project and the breeds used in that pilot study can be found at INRA.

Information on the markers and the breeds used in this study is available.