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Assigning breed origin to alleles in crossbred animals.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 22 Aug 2016
Vandenplas Jérémie, Calus Mario P L, Sevillano Claudia A, Windig Jack J, Bastiaansen John W M
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BACKGROUND: For some species, animal production systems are based on the use of crossbreeding to take advantage of the increased performance of crossbred compared to purebred animals. Effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) may differ between purebred and crossbred animals for several reasons: (1) differences in linkage disequilibrium between SNP alleles and a quantitative trait locus; (2) differences...
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