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The Importance of Endophenotypes to Evaluate the Relationship between Genotype and External Phenotype.
International journal of molecular sciences - 22 Feb 2017
Te Pas Marinus F W, Madsen Ole, Calus Mario P L, Smits Mari A
Abstract excerpt
With the exception of a few Mendelian traits, almost all phenotypes (traits) in livestock science are quantitative or complex traits regulated by the expression of many genes. For most of the complex traits, differential expression of genes, rather than genomic variation in the gene coding sequences, is associated with the genotype of a trait. The expression profiles of the animal's transcriptome, proteome and...
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