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Large-scale, multibreed, multitrait analyses of quantitative trait loci experiments: the case of porcine X chromosome.
Journal of animal science - 1 Oct 2005
Pérez-Enciso M, Mercadé A, Bidanel J P, Geldermann H, Cepica S, Bartenschlager H, Varona L, Milan D, Folch J M
Abstract excerpt
A QTL analysis of multibreed experiments (i.e., crossed populations involving more than two founder breeds) offers clear advantages over classical two-breed crosses, among them increased power and a more comprehensive coverage of the total genetic variability in the species. An alternative to designed multibreed crosses is to reanalyze jointly several experiments involving different breeds. We report a...
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