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A genome-wide scan for signatures of directional selection in domesticated pigs.
BMC genomics - 25 Feb 2015
Moon Sunjin, Kim Tae-Hun, Lee Kyung-Tai, Kwak Woori, Lee Taeheon, Lee Si-Woo, Kim Myung-Jick, Cho Kyuho, Kim Namshin, Chung Won-Hyong, Sung Samsun, Park Taesung, Cho Seoae, Groenen Martien Am, Nielsen Rasmus, Kim Yuseob, Kim Heebal
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Animal domestication involved drastic phenotypic changes driven by strong artificial selection and also resulted in new populations of breeds, established by humans. This study aims to identify genes that show evidence of recent artificial selection during pig domestication. RESULTS: Whole-genome resequencing of 30 individual pigs from domesticated breeds, Landrace and Yorkshire, and 10 Asian wild...
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