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Evaluation of QTL for carcass merit and meat quality traits in a US commercial Duroc population.
Meat science - 1 Oct 2012
Choi Igseo, Bates Ronald O, Raney Nancy E, Steibel Juan P, Ernst Catherine W
Abstract excerpt
Putative quantitative trait loci (QTL) regions on 5 chromosomes (SSC3, 6, 12, 15, and 18) were selected from our previous genome scans of a Duroc×Pietrain F(2) resource population for further evaluation in a US commercial Duroc population (n=331). A total of 81 gene-specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers were genotyped and 33 markers were segregating. The MDH1 SNP on SSC3 was associated with 45-min...
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