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Detection of a quantitative trait locus for ham weight with polar overdominance near the ortholog of the callipyge locus in an experimental pig F2 population.
Journal of animal science - 1 Oct 2010
Boysen T J, Tetens J, Thaller G
Abstract excerpt
The distal part of SSC7, which contains the ortholog to the ovine region encompassing the callipyge locus, was analyzed in a Piétrain F(2) resource population comprising more than 2,700 offspring. The aim of the study was to map QTL affecting carcass traits comparable with the callipyge phenotype in sheep. We applied an interval mapping approach using 14 microsatellite markers and detected 3 QTL with small...
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