Article
Combination analysis of genome-wide association and transcriptome sequencing of residual feed intake in quality chickens.
BMC genomics - 9 Aug 2016
Xu Zhenqiang, Ji Congliang, Zhang Yan, Zhang Zhe, Nie Qinghua, Xu Jiguo, Zhang Dexiang, Zhang Xiquan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Residual feed intake (RFI) is a powerful indicator for energy utilization efficiency and responds to selection. Low RFI selection enables a reduction in feed intake without affecting growth performance. However, the effective variants or major genes dedicated to phenotypic differences in RFI in quality chickens are unclear. Therefore, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and RNA sequencing were...
Topics
- Animal Feed
- Animals
- Chickens
- Databases, Genetic
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Haplotypes
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait Loci
- Quantitative Trait, Heritable