Article
Genome-wide characterization of genetic variants and putative regions under selection in meat and egg-type chicken lines.
BMC genomics - 25 Jan 2018
Boschiero Clarissa, Moreira Gabriel Costa Monteiro, Gheyas Almas Ara, Godoy Thaís Fernanda, Gasparin Gustavo, Mariani Pilar Drummond Sampaio Corrêa, Paduan Marcela, Cesar Aline Silva Mello, Ledur Mônica Corrêa, Coutinho Luiz Lehmann
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Meat and egg-type chickens have been selected for several generations for different traits. Artificial and natural selection for different phenotypes can change frequency of genetic variants, leaving particular genomic footprints throghtout the genome. Thus, the aims of this study were to sequence 28 chickens from two Brazilian lines (meat and white egg-type) and use this information to characterize...
Topics
- Animals
- Avian Proteins
- Brazil
- Chickens
- Eggs
- Genome
- Genomics
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
- INDEL Mutation
- Meat
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait Loci