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Identification of quantitative trait loci for production traits in commercial pig populations.
Genetics - 1 Jun 2003
Evans G J, Giuffra E, Sanchez A, Kerje S, Davalos G, Vidal O, Illán S, Noguera J L, Varona L, Velander I, Southwood O I, de Koning D-J, Haley C S, Plastow G S, Andersson L
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to investigate methods for detecting QTL in outbred commercial pig populations. Several QTL for back fat and growth rate, previously detected in experimental resource populations, were examined for segregation in 10 different populations. Two hundred trait-by-population-by-chromosome tests were performed, resulting in 20 tests being significant at the 5% level. In addition, 53 QTL tests...
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