Table 1

Details of FISH probes and microsatellite markers used in the study. The probes marked by * are PAC clones derived from RPCI1 library, and those probes starting with AC are cosmid probes isolated from the library LLO3NCO1, both obtained from the UK HGMP resource centre

Locus FISH probe Polymorphism
D3S1304Microsatellite
D3S18cLIB 1
D3S1597Microsatellite
D3S1317Microsatellite
D3S601cos 7
D3S1038cos 14Microsatellite
D3S358961P20* / AC50K12Microsatellite
D3S587cLIB 12-48
D3S3601Microsatellite
D3S3594226D20Microsatellite
D3S1263283J16* Microsatellite
NIB1677201I11* Microsatellite
D3S3714183M12* / AC12J24, AC19C22Microsatellite
D3S3680183M12* Microsatellite
D3S3088225B20* / AC38A7
D3S1259248M7* / 275B20* Microsatellite
D3S3701Microsatellite
D3S3602Microsatellite
D3S3693Microsatellite
D3S3610Microsatellite
D3S1585289I19* Microsatellite