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- Title
Genetic mapping with SNP markers in Drosophila.
- Authors
Berger, Jürg; Suzuki, Takashi; Senti, Kirsten-André; Stubbs, Janine; Schaffner, Gotthold; Dickson, Barry J.
- Abstract
Map-based positional cloning of Drosophila melanogaster genes is hampered by both the time-consuming, error-prone nature of traditional methods for genetic mapping and the difficulties in aligning the genetic and cytological maps with the genome sequence. The identification of sequence polymorphisms in the Drosophila genome will make it possible to map mutations directly to the genome sequence with high accuracy and resolution. Here we report the identification of 7,223 singlenucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 1,392 insertions/deletions (InDels) in common laboratory strains of Drosophila. These sequence polymorphisms define a map of 787 autosomal marker loci with a resolution of 114 kb. We have established PCR product-length polymorphism (PLP) or restriction fragment-length polymorphism (RFLP) assays for 215 of these markers. We demonstrate the use of this map by delimiting two mutations to intervals of 169 kb and 307 kb, respectively. Using a local high-density SNP map, we also mapped a third mutation to a resolution of approximately 2 kb, sufficient to localize the mutation within a single gene. These methods should accelerate the rate of positional cloning in Drosophila.
- Subjects
DROSOPHILA genetics; GENE mapping; GENETIC markers
- Publication
Nature Genetics, 2001, Vol 29, Issue 4, p475
- ISSN
1061-4036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/ng773