Superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) was mapped to cattle chromosome 1q12-->q
14 by in situ methods. Both traditional in situ hybridization using tr
itium and a new technique, direct in-situ single copy PCR (DISC-PCR),
were used in two separate laboratories. Both human and bovine SOD1 clo
nes were tritium labeled for radioactive in situ hybridization. A prim
er pair based on the bovine SOD1 gene (Barendse et al., 1994b) was use
d for the DISC-PCR procedure. The map location of SOD1 is close to col
lagen 6A1. SOD1 is a potentially important type 1 anchor locus in the
region where the gene for horns in cattle was recently mapped (Georges
et al., 1993; Schmutz et al., 1995).