From: Genome scan linkage analysis comparing microsatellites and single-nucleotide polymorphisms markers for two measures of alcoholism in chromosomes 1, 4, and 7
Classification of genome scans
No. STRP or SNPs
Information content mean (SD)
Microsatellites
10
0.87 (0.04)
Rep1a
12
0.65 (0.06)
Rep2a
25
0.86 (0.06)
Rep3a
38
0.90 (0.04)
Rep4a
51
0.91 (0.06)
Rep5a
61
0.92 (0.04)
Entire set of SNPs
96
0.93 (0.03)