A Small Population Size

Pp. 348-353 Statistical Genomics: Linkage, Mapping and QTL Analysis. B.H. Liu.

"Small population size and low linkage information content can cause undetected linkage when a small number of markers are used."

"When a large number of markers are used in a genomic mapping experiment, map density is not limited by the number of markers, but rather by number of progeny of the mapping population. There is a limitation on the linkage that can be resolved for a relatively small population size."