The phrase "to construct a linkage" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it when you are referring to creating an association, connection, or relationship between two or more things. For example, "We need to construct a linkage between education and economic growth to make progress."
The F2 mapping population of 94 individuals was genotyped at the loci tagged by the preselected anchor markers to construct a linkage map skeleton.
Two newly developed markers and two polymorphic SSR markers (RM17713 and RM13) were used to construct a linkage map of NUDA/GL-1 using Mapmaker/Exp 3.0 (Lander et al[1987]) on the basis of the 158-plant F2 population.
For linkage analyses, we selected 355 SNPs uniformly distributed from the original marker set to construct a linkage map using the Kosambi map function in R/qtl (Arends et al. 2010).
For the QTL analysis, 110 BILs were developed from BC2F2 plants produced by crossing Hitomebore (the recurrent parent) with Kele and were used to construct a linkage map and to search for QTLs for resistance to BGR.
Nonetheless, despite the small number of individuals sampled we were able to construct a linkage map of the P. xylostella genome with paternally derived RAD alleles.
Nonetheless, the extensive sampling of the genome provided by the RAD markers enabled us to construct a linkage map based on recombinational distances between paternally inherited RAD markers.
The SFP marker data generated were combined with 109 publicly available simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers that span all linkage groups, and used to construct a genetic linkage map with the Kosambi mapping function in JoinMap 3.0 [ 71] at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
The markers used to construct a saturated linkage map of one species may be used to construct linkage maps for other crops in the same family.
These SSRs were used to construct a genetic linkage map using MapManager QTXb20 [ 53] with the Kosambi mapping function [ 54] and a linkage criterion of P = 10-4.
Correlation between expression of a useful trait and a linked molecular marker could be used to construct a genetic linkage map by placing many monogenic and polygenic traits within specific regions of the plant genome (Mondini et al. 2010).
MAPMAKER/EXP (version 3.0b; Lincoln et al. [1993]), set to the Kosambi mapping function in cM, was used to construct a genetic linkage map from the segregating data of the RILs.
