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Accuracy of imputation using the most common sires as reference population in layer chickens.
BMC genetics - 18 Aug 2015
Heidaritabar Marzieh, Calus Mario P L, Vereijken Addie, Groenen Martien A M, Bastiaansen John W M
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BACKGROUND: Genotype imputation has become a standard practice in modern genetic research to increase genome coverage and improve the accuracy of genomic selection (GS) and genome-wide association studies (GWAS). We assessed accuracies of imputing 60K genotype data from lower density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panels using a small set of the most common sires in a population of 2140 white layer...
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