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Evidence for three highly significant QTL for meat quality traits in the Finnish Yorkshire pig breed.
Journal of animal science - 1 May 2013
Uimari P, Sironen A, Sevón-Aimonen M-L
Abstract excerpt
Meat quality is important both to consumers and to the meat processing industry. Commonly used measures of porcine meat quality are the pH and color of the meat. The purpose of this study was to identify SNP associated with these meat quality traits in Finnish Yorkshire using the Illumina PorcineSNP60 BeadChip. The association of each SNP with the quality traits was tested with a weighted linear model. The...
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