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Eleven genes were mapped to the porcine genome with the aim of improving the human-porcine comparative gene map. Five of these genes were from regions of the human genome painted by porcine chromosomal probes; of these, two mapped to chromosomes not expected from the painting results. Among the six genes from human regions not painted by porcine chromosomal probes, three genes did not map where expected by the principle of parsimony. Several of the gene assignments indicate the existence of small regions of conserved synteny not detected by heterologous chromosome painting, especially in telomeric regions. We have also detected new rearrangements in gene order within the regions of correspondence between human Chromosome (HSA) 15 and porcine Chromosome (SSC) 1 as well as between HSA4 and SSC8.

H O D G E~S , R. B., 1990: Growth hormone restriction fragment length WOBBE, C. R.; STRUHL, K., 1990: Yeast andrhuman TATA-binding proteins have nearly identical trait loci for growth in mice. Genetics 131: 929-937. polymorphisms that segregate with 42-da live weight of mice. Genome 33: 235-239.DNA sequence requirements for transcription in vitro. Mol. Cell. Biol. 10: 3859-3867.

Summary Fifty‐eight calves of both sexes from lines of Red Danish dairy breed selected for high (n= 36) and low (n= 22) milk fat production, and 32 heifers from lines of Norwegian Red dairy breed selected for high (n= 16) and low (n= 16) milk fat yield were typed for two previously reported restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) in the growth hormone gene. The RFLPs are consistent with: (1) an insertion(I)/deletion(D) of approximately 0.9kb in the 3′‐region of the growth hormone gene and (2) a polymorphic MspI(+/−) site in the third intron. A traditional RFLP procedure was used for typing the I/D polymorphism and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure was developed for typing the Mspl polymorphism. Only the I‐MspI(+) and D‐MspI(‐) haplotypes were found. In the Red Danish lines the frequency of D‐MspI(‐) haplo‐type was 0.28 in high line and 0.05 in low line calves, this difference was significant (P <0.01). The corresponding frequencies in the Norwegian Red lines were 0.09 in the high line and 0.0 in the low line. Attempts to screen for RFLPs in the growth hormone receptor gene and in the insulin‐like growth factor‐I gene were unsuccessful.

Bovine sequence tagged sites (STSs) were developed for seven genes and used for synteny mapping with a hybrid bovine × rodent cell line panel. The genes were thymidylate synthase (TYMS), pituitary adenylate cyclase activating peptide (ADCYAP1), and melanocortin-2 receptor (MC2R) from the short arm of human chromosome (HSA) 18 and N-cadherin (CDH2), transthyretin (TTR), gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP), and plasminogen activator inhibitor 2 (PAI2) from the long arm of HSA 18. Primers for these genes were designed with human, ovine, or bovine sequences aligned with a sequence from a second species. The bovine PCR product was cloned, and the fragment was sequenced to verify that the homologous gene was indeed amplified. A second set of bovine-specific PCR primers were developed for each gene from these sequences. These STSs were used for synteny mapping, and all seven genes were syntenic with markers of bovine chromosome (BTA) 24. The concordance with BTA 24 was at least 96.5 % for all genes.