[Establishing a gene linkage phase by parental phenotype].

The possibility of using the phenotypic characteristics of parents for identifying the linkage phase in offspring is analyzed. It is demonstrated that parents with similar phenotypes (or marker genotypes) carry no information about the gene linkage phase in diheterozygous offspring. The probability of a certain linkage phase remains the same in all informative crossings. It depends on the model of inheritance of the analyzed alternative trait and is similar for di- and polyallelic markers. The frequencies of informative crossings and the probability of the linkage phase for different models of inheritance of the analyzed and marker traits are estimated.