Genome-wide mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci for fatness, fat cell characteristics and fat metabolism in three porcine F2 crosses

Table 3 Overview of marker loci and chromosomes^a

Parameter	M × P	W × P	W × M
Number of marker loci
Total	216	169	195
Microsatellites	138	131	138
SNPs	56	18	38
Other polymorphisms^b	22	20	19
Number of markers per chromosome
Average	11.4	8.9	10.3
Min.	4	3	3
Max.	29	17	20
Total map size^c	2762	2692	2728
Map size per chromosome^c
Average	145.4	141.7	143.6
Min.	56.4	48.7	58.8
Max.	232.1	229.2	235.9
Average marker interval^c	14.0	17.9	15.5

^a additional information on marker loci is provided in Additional file 1; ^ballotypes, blood groups, biochemical polymorphisms, indels, SSCPs, DGGEs; ^c sex averaged lengths/intervals for the loci in Kosambi cM for the F₂ crosses

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