Mouse chromosome 8

This latest chromosome (Chr) 8 report contains 995 entries, incorporating data available by 11/98. Of the mapped loci on this chromosome, 29% are genes/pseudogenes, 8% are expressed sequence tags (ESTs), and 63% are anonymous markers. There are 78 additions to this year's map, of which 42 are ESTs, 24 are genes, 3 are quantitative trait loci (QTLs), and 9 are anonymous markers. The chromosome length of 84 cM is unchanged from the previous Chr 8 report. The most distal 12 cM of the chromosome has almost no known loci, and none of the new entries fell into this region. The current consensus genetic map of Chr 8, a locus table (Table 1), and a cytogenetic map (Figure 1) can be accessed electronically at The Jackson Laboratory World Wide Web site (http://www.informatics.jax.org/bin/ccr/index).