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linkage group

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linkage group
n.
A pair or set of genes on a chromosome that tend to be inherited together.

linkage group,
a group of genes that tend to be inherited as a unit because they are located on the same chromosome. Without crossing over, all of the genes on a given chromosome constitute a linkage group, and the number of linkage groups in an organism is equal to the number of autosomes in a haploid cell.


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It will be interesting to see if the pair of loci (Med 362 and Med 722) that showed some evidence of linkage (significant deviation from linkage equilibrium), when mapped, will be close together in the same linkage group.
Genetic linkage mapping based on a population of nearly 500 Doubled Haploid Lines was able to position three or four members of this gene family on linkage groups 17, 24, and 28, respectively (two of the four observed polymorphic restriction fragments containing alpha-tubulin genes are either identical or map too close to each other on linkage group 17 to be distinguishable in map distance).
 
 
 
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