A comparison of SNP and STR loci for delineating population structure and performing individual genetic assignment

• Published in: BMC Genetics
• Main Authors: Glover, Kevin A, Hansen, Michael M, Lien, Sigbjørn, Als, Thomas Damm, Høyheim, Bjørn, Skaala, Oystein
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Animals; Aquaculture; Genetic Loci; Genetics; Population; Genotype; Microsatellite Repeats; Norway; Polymorphism; Single Nucleotide; Salmon; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/a-comparison-of-snp-and-str-loci-for-delineating-population-structure-and-performing-individual-genetic-assignment(960f5da0-faa9-11de-9c17-000ea68e967b).html; https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-11-2

Technological advances have lead to the rapid increase in availability of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a range of organisms, and there is a general optimism that SNPs will become the marker of choice for a range of evolutionary applications. Here, comparisons between 300 polymorphic SNPs and 14 short tandem repeats (STRs) were conducted on a data set consisting of approximately 500 Atlantic salmon arranged in 10 samples/populations.