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Commercial chicken breeds exhibit highly divergent patterns of linkage disequilibrium.
Heredity - 1 Nov 2016
Pengelly R J, Gheyas A A, Kuo R, Mossotto E, Seaby E G, Burt D W, Ennis S, Collins A
Abstract excerpt
The analysis of linkage disequilibrium (LD) underpins the development of effective genotyping technologies, trait mapping and understanding of biological mechanisms such as those driving recombination and the impact of selection. We apply the Malécot-Morton model of LD to create additive LD maps that describe the high-resolution LD landscape of commercial chickens. We investigated LD in chickens (Gallus gallus)...
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