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Comparison of General Features of Different Types of Molecular and their Use

 

RELPs

RAPDs

DAF

Principle

Endonuclease restriction Southern blot Hybridization

DNA amplification with random primers

DNA amplification with random primers

Types of polymorphism detected

Base changes
(indel, subst.)

Base changes
(indel, subst.)

Base changes
(indel, subst.)

Sequence information needed

No

No

No

Detection method (radioisotope)

yes/no

no

yes/no

Reproducibility

High 

Low

Low

 No. of loci detected

1-5

1-10

20-30

Inheritance

Codominant

Dominant

Dominant

Technical difficulty

Medium

Low

Medium

Automation possible

-

-

-

Computation possible

+

+

+

Cost

Medium

Low

Medium

Use:

+

+

+

1. Varietal fingerprinting and genetic diversity

 

 

 

2. Qualitative gene tagging

+

+

+

3. ATL mapping

+

-

-

4. MAS

+

-/+

-

5. Comparative mapping

+

+

-



STS(CAPS)

SSRs

AFLPs

SAMPLs

May need endonuclease restriction PCR products

Amplification of simple sequence repeats using specific primers

Endonuclease restriction use of adapters selective primers

Same as AFLP except labelled primer is a compound SSR

Base changes
(indel, subst.)

Variation in length of repeats

Base changes
(indel, subst.)

Base changes
(indel, subst.)

Yes

No

No

No

yes/no

yes/no

yes/no

yes/no

high

High

High

High

1-4

1-3

> 70

~50

Codominant

Codominant

Generally Dominant

Dominant Codominant

Low

Low

Medium/High

Medium/High

+

+

+

+

+

+++

+++

+++

Medium-High

High initially

High

High

+

+++

+++

+

 

 

 

 

+

+

+++

+++

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+



REMAP/IRAP

SNPs

DNA
amplification using both/one retrotranposon & one SSR primer

Sequence analysis

Variation in length

Single base changes

Yes

Yes

no

no

High

High

3-5

1 (biallelic)

Codominant

Dominant

Medium

Medium/High

+

+

+++

+++

Low

High

+

+

 

 

+

+

-

+

+

+

-

+


 

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