Genome scan linkage analysis comparing microsatellites and single-nucleotide polymorphisms markers for two measures of alcoholism in chromosomes 1, 4, and 7

Table 3 SNP density and information content around the chromosome 7 linkage peak (114–172 cM) for STRP scan

Classification of genome scans	No. STRP or SNPs	Information content mean (SD)
Microsatellites	10	0.87 (0.04)
Rep1^a	12	0.65 (0.06)
Rep2^a	25	0.86 (0.06)
Rep3^a	38	0.90 (0.04)
Rep4^a	51	0.91 (0.06)
Rep5^a	61	0.92 (0.04)
Entire set of SNPs	96	0.93 (0.03)

^aReplicates: 1, one SNP randomly selected from each block; 2, two SNPs randomly selected from each block; 3, three SNPs randomly selected from each block; 4; four SNPs randomly selected from each block; 5, five SNPs randomly selected from each block.

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