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Genome-wide scans to detect positive selection in Large White and Tongcheng pigs.
Animal genetics - 1 Jun 2014
Li Xiuling, Yang Songbai, Tang Zhonglin, Li Kui, Rothschild Max F, Liu Bang, Fan Bin
Abstract excerpt
Due to the direction, intensity, duration and consistency of genetic selection, especially recent artificial selection, the production performance of domestic pigs has been greatly changed. Therefore, we reasoned that there must be footprints or selection signatures that had been left during domestication. In this study, with porcine 60K BeadChip genotyping data from both commercial Large White and local Chinese...
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