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[Effect of five genetic Loci related to pig litter size].
Yi chuan = Hereditas - 1 Jun 2006
Shi Qi-Shun, Liu Xiao-Chun, Liu Zhi-Wei, Li Xiao-Ping, Li Yong-Hui, Tang Fan
Abstract excerpt
To compare the effect of different genes on litter size, we used PCR-RFLP to test the genotypic frequencies of 5 genes related to litter size, i. e. ESR, FSHbeta, PRL, PRLR and NCOA1 and analyzed the effect of various genotypes on total number born (TNB) and number born alive (NBA) within the same populations of Large White (n=158) and Landrace (n=224) pigs. Results showed that the PRLR and NCOA1 loci exerted the...
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