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Genome-wide association studies and meta-analysis reveal novel quantitative trait loci and pleiotropic loci for swine head-related traits.
Journal of animal science - 1 Jun 2017
Chen H, Huang T, Zhang Z, Yang B, Jiang C, Wu J, Zhou Z, Zheng H, Xin W, Huang M, Zhang M, Chen C, Ren J, Ai H, Huang L
Abstract excerpt
The pig is an important domestic animal that provides a larger amount of meat and serves as a biomedical animal model for human. Head and facial features are closely linked to identity recognition in mammal communication. To uncover the genetic architecture of swine head and facial features, we constructed 5 experimental pig populations and accurately measured 10 traits related to head and facial features, for...
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