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Linkage disequilibrium reveals different demographic history in egg laying chickens.
BMC genetics - 15 Nov 2010
Qanbari Saber, Hansen Maria, Weigend Steffen, Preisinger Rudolf, Simianer Henner
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The availability of larger-scale SNP data sets in the chicken genome allows to achieve a higher resolution of the pattern of linkage disequilibrium (LD). In this study, 36 k and 57 k genotypes from two independent genotyping chips were used to systematically characterize genome-wide extent and structure of LD in the genome of four chicken populations. In total, we analyzed genotypes of 454 animals...
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