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Results of a whole-genome quantitative trait locus scan for growth, carcass composition and meat quality in a porcine four-way cross.
Animal genetics - 1 Dec 2006
Harmegnies N, Davin F, De Smet S, Buys N, Georges M, Coppieters W
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A whole-genome quantitative trait locus (QTL) scan for 31 phenotypes related to growth, carcass composition and meat quality was conducted using 1187 progeny of a commercial four-way cross. Animals were genotyped for 198 microsatellite markers that spanned the entire porcine genome. QTL analysis was conducted to extract information from paternal and maternal meioses separately using a rank-based nonparametric...
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