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Genome-wide association study of body weight in Australian Merino sheep reveals an orthologous region on OAR6 to human and bovine genomic regions affecting height and weight.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 14 Aug 2015
Al-Mamun Hawlader A, Kwan Paul, Clark Samuel A, Ferdosi Mohammad H, Tellam Ross, Gondro Cedric
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BACKGROUND: Body weight (BW) is an important trait for meat production in sheep. Although over the past few years, numerous quantitative trait loci (QTL) have been detected for production traits in cattle, few QTL studies have been reported for sheep, with even fewer on meat production traits. Our objective was to perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) with the medium-density Illumina Ovine SNP50 BeadChip...
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