You are working with a 125 million bp human chromosome 1 cen

You are working with a 125 million bp human chromosome (1 centimorgan = 1 million bp), and wish to use markers to map new genes via linkage. In theory, what are the minimum number of markers/loci you need to map genes to this chromosome? Why?

Solution

1 centimorgan=1 million bp

This means 123 million bp=125 centimorgan

On an average the linkage is formed between 2 chromosomes.Therefore nnumber of linkages=125/2=62.5=>62

This means the number of markers=number of linkage=62