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Measuring inbreeding and inbreeding depression on pig growth from pedigree or SNP-derived metrics.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Oct 2013
Silió L, Rodríguez M C, Fernández A, Barragán C, Benítez R, Óvilo C, Fernández A I
Abstract excerpt
Multilocus homozygosity, measured as the proportion of the autosomal genome in homozygous genotypes or in runs of homozygosity, was compared with the respective pedigree inbreeding coefficients in 64 Iberian pigs genotyped using the Porcine SNP60 Beadchip. Pigs were sampled from a set of experimental animals with a large inbreeding variation born in a closed strain with a completely recorded multi-generation...
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