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	Brian Kirkpatrick, Professor            Department of Animal Sciences; Department of Dairy Science Animal Science Bldg. 1675 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: 608.263.4323 Fax: 608.262.5157 email: bwkirkpa@wisc.edu PubMed citation

Education:

B.S. Iowa State University, Animal Science 1979
M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Meat & Animal Sciences/Animal Breeding 1984
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Meat & Animal Sciences/ Animal Breeding 1987
Post Doctoral Research University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Dairy Science

Research Interests:

Research interests include analysis of genetic variation in reproduction and disease resistance in livestock and laboratory species and refinement of the bovine / human / mouse comparative map. A primary focus is identification of genes (quantitative trait loci or QTL) contributing to variation in bovine twinning rate. Use of markers linked with twinning rate QTL in selection programs will greatly facilitate increasing or decreasing twinning rate as deemed appropriate by a given cattle management system. Comparative mapping efforts are targeted to genomic regions harboring QTL and regions lacking comparative map data.

Twinner Cattle Research Website

Teaching:

• Animal Science 431: Beef Cattle Production, Fall, 1989 to present,
  co-taught with Dr. D. Schaefer     AS431 Home Page
• Shortcourse: Beef Cattle Management and Production, Spring, 1990 to present,
  co-taught with Dr. D. Schaefer
• Dairy Science 900: Seminar in Gene Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection,
  each semester: 1991 to present
• Animal Science 951 / Genetics 951: Seminar in Animal Breeding,
  Spring 1995, Fall 1998
• Animal Science 875, Strategies and Methods in Mapping Economic Trait
  Loci, Spring 1995, Spring 1998
• INTER-AG 288, Introduction to Undergraduate Research, each fall, co-taught with
  Dr. N.J. Benevenga,
• Dairy Science / Animal Science 360, Animal Breeding, Guest Lecturer, Spring,
  1990 to present

Awards:

Patent: U.S. Patent No. 5,759,772 -- Method for Determining the Sex of an Embryo. Issued June 2, 1998.

Outreach and Extension:

A workshop in genetic marker methods and applications is offered on a biannual basis to industry animal geneticists. This workshop provides hands-on experience with DNA technology in the laboratory and genetic marker data in the computer lab. The workshop is co-taught with Dr. Margaret Dentine of the Department of Dairy Science.

Back row: Brian Kirkpatrick, Hasan Koyun, John Woollard, Jon Bastiaansen, Ercan Kurar.
Front row: Jenny Che, Margaret Dentine, Jenifer Cruickshank, Becky Byla, Zixia Gu, Val Schutzkus

Consensus map

Comprehensive map

Marker genotypes by Laboratory (PDF format 65k)

Reference families. (PDF format 65k)

BTA24 Consensus Map:

Comprehensive map
Distances in cM (PDF format 70k)

Programs (SAS)--Calculating genotypic probabilities for Haley- Knott regression

Manual (PDF format 65k)
Example (PDF format 53k)
Run ( PDF format 36k)
Run Final ( PDF format 100k)
Run General (PDF format 91k)

Gu, Z., L. Gomez-Raya, D.I. Våge, K. Elo, W. Barendse, G. Davis, M. Grosz, G. Erhardt, E. Kalm , N. Reinsch, S.M. Kappes, R.T. Stone, S.K. Davis, J.F. Taylor, and B.W.Kirkpatrick. 2000. Consensus and comprehensive linkage maps of bovine chromosome 7. Animal Genetics 31:206-209.

Kirkpatrick, B.W., B. M. Byla and K.E. Gregory. 2000. Mapping quantitative trait loci for bovine ovulation rate. Mammalian Genome 11:136-139.

Gu, Z., J.E. Womack and B.W. Kirkpatrick. 1999. A radiation hybrid map of bovine chromosome 7 and comparative mapping with human chromosome 19 p arm. Mammalian Genome 10:1112-1114

Larsen, N.J., H. Hayes, M. Bishop, S.K. Davis, J.F. Taylor and B.W. Kirkpatrick. 1999. A comparative linkage and physical map of bovine chromosome 24 with human chromosome 18. Mammalian Genome 10:482-487.

Kirkpatrick, B.W., A. Mengelt, N. Schulman and I.C.A. Martin. 1998. Identification of quantitative trait loci for prolificacy and growth in mice. Mammalian Genome 9:97-102.

Gu, Z., J.E. Womack and B.W. Kirkpatrick. 1998. Synteny mapping of four genes from the short arm of human chromosome 19 to bovine chromosome 7. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 79:225-7.

Taylor, J.F., A. Eggen, A. Aleyasin, S.M. Armitage, W. Barendse, J.E. Beever, M.D. Bishop, R.A. Brenneman, B.M. Burns, S.K. Davis, K. Elo, B. Harlizius, S.M. Kappes, J.W. Keele, S.J. Kemp, B.W. Kirkpatrick, H.A. Lewin, R.Z.

Ma, R.A. McGraw, D. Pomp, R.T. Stone, Y Sugimoto, A.J. Teale, D. Vaiman, J. Vilkki, J.L. Williams, C.-C. Yeh and M.C. Zanotti. 1998. Report of the first workshop on the genetic map of bovine chromosome 1. Animal Genetics 29:228-235.

Casas-Carrillo, E. and B.W. Kirkpatrick. 1998. Regiones genomicas asociadas con crecimiento en cerdos. Veterinaria México 29:181-189.

Larsen, N.J., A. Eggen, B. Byla, L. Doud, M.D. Bishop, and B.W. Kirkpatrick. 1998. UW68, a polymorphic bovine microsatellite on chromosome 17. Animal Genetics 29:243.