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Evolutionary study of a potential selection target region in the pig.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2011
Ojeda A, Ramos-Onsins S E, Marletta D, Huang L S, Folch J M, Pérez-Enciso M
Abstract excerpt
Domestication, modern breeding and artificial selection have shaped dramatically the genomic variability of domestic animals. In livestock, the so-called FAT1 quantitative trait locus (QTL) in porcine chromosome 4 was the first QTL uncovered although, to date, its precise molecular nature has remained elusive. Here, we characterize the nucleotide variability of 13 fragments of ∼500 bp equally spaced in a 2 Mb...
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