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Fine-mapping quantitative trait loci for body weight and abdominal fat traits: effects of marker density and sample size.
Poultry science - 1 Jul 2008
Liu X, Zhang H, Li H, Li N, Zhang Y, Zhang Q, Wang S, Wang Q, Wang H
Abstract excerpt
Highly significant QTL for BW and abdominal fat traits on chicken chromosome 1 were reported previously in a unique F2 population. The objective of this study was to confirm and refine the QTL locations. Compared with the previous experiment, this study added 8 new families, including all the animals in the pedigree, and genotyped 9 more microsatellite markers, including 6 novel ones. Linkage analyses were...
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