QTL Course:  June 2000  Belo Horizonte - Brasil: IDENTIFYING AND INCORPORATING GENETIC MARKERS AND MAJOR GENES
IN ANIMAL BREEDING PROGRAMS
Brian Kinghorn  & Julius van der Werf
University of New England
Armidale, Australia

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                     Table of Contents

Chapter	Title		Author	Page
Part I: Introduction and building blocks
1 - pdf	Overview of animal breeding and the role of QTL		Julius van der Werf	1
2 - pdf	The building blocks of quantitative genetics.		Brian Kinghorn	9
3 - pdf	Calculation of genotype probabilities from phenotypic data or DNA tests		Brian Kinghorn	23
4 - pdf	Introduction to some aspects of Molecular Genetics		Julius van der Werf	35
Part II Linkage analysis and gene mapping
5 - pdf	Basics of linkage and mapping		Julius van der Werf	45
Part III Detection and mapping of QTL
6 - pdf	Principles of estimating QTL effects (single markers)		Brian Kinghorn	55
7 - pdf	Use of multiple markers: interval mapping		Julius van der Werf	61
8 - pdf	QTL detection in designed experiments  and in outbred populations		Brian Kinghorn	71
9 - pdf	Methods for QTL analysis		Julius van der Werf	79
10 - pdf	Genetic models for detecting multiple QTL		Julius van der Werf	91
11 - pdf	Multiple trait models for QTL analysis		Brian Kinghorn	99
12 - pdf	Experimental strategies for QTL detection		Jack Dekkers	105
13 - pdf	Fine mapping and IBD mapping		Julius van der Werf	109
14 - pdf	Positional cloning, candidate genes, and comparative mapping		Brian Kinghorn	115

Part IV Marker Assisted Selection
15 - pdf	Basics of marker assisted selection		Julius van der Werf		119
16 - pdf	Implementation of direct and indirect markers		Brian Kinghorn		129
17 - pdf	Genetic evaluation at individual QTL		Julius van der Werf		139
18 - pdf	Examples of marker assisted selection		Julius van der Werf		147
19 - pdf	Targeting QTL using mate selection		Brian Kinghorn		153
Exercises
	1-1  - pdf 1-2  -pdf 2-1  - pdf 2-2  - pdf 3-1  -pdf 3-2  - pdf 5-1  -pdf excel spreadsheet on QTL mapping

 

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