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Revealing new candidate genes for reproductive traits in pigs: combining Bayesian GWAS and functional pathways.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 1 Feb 2016
Verardo Lucas L, Silva Fabyano F, Lopes Marcos S, Madsen Ole, Bastiaansen John W M, Knol Egbert F, Kelly Mathew, Varona Luis, Lopes Paulo S, Guimarães Simone E F
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Reproductive traits such as number of stillborn piglets (SB) and number of teats (NT) have been evaluated in many genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Most of these GWAS were performed under the assumption that these traits were normally distributed. However, both SB and NT are discrete (e.g. count) variables. Therefore, it is necessary to test for better fit of other appropriate statistical models...
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