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Validation of the QTL on SSC4 for meat and carcass quality traits in a commercial crossbred pig population.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Feb 2009
Sławińska A, Siwek M, Knol E F, Roelofs-Prins D T, van Wijk H J, Dibbits B, Bednarczyk M
Abstract excerpt
Porcine chromosome 4 harbours many quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting meat quality, fatness and carcass composition traits, detected in resource pig populations previously. However, prior to selection in commercial breeds, QTL identified in an intercross between divergent breeds require confirmation, so that they can be segregated. Consequently, the objective of this study was to validate several QTL on...
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