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The Journal of Heredity 2002:93(5)
© 2002 The American Genetic Association 93:383-384

Computer Note

Popmin: A Program for the Numerical Optimization of Population Sizes in Marker-Assisted Backcross Programs

G. Decoux, and F. Hospital

From the Station de Gé nétique Végétale, INRA/UPS/INAPG, Ferme du Moulon, 91190 Gif sur Yvette, France.

Address correspondence to Frédéric Hospital at the address above, or e-mail: fred@moulon.inra.fr.

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In a backcross breeding program aimed at introgressing a "target" gene from a "donor" line into the genomic background of a "recipient" line, an important issue is to reduce the length of the intact chromosomal segment of donor type dragged along around the target gene (linkage drag), because this segment hosts most of the unwanted donor genes still segregating in the population after a few generations (Hospital 2001; Naveira and Barbadilla 1992; Stam and Zeven 1981. . . [Full Text of this Article]


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