Article
Genetic variations (eQTLs) in muscle transcriptome and mitochondrial genes, and trans-eQTL molecular pathways in feed efficiency from Danish breeding pigs.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Carmelo Victor A O, Kadarmideen Haja N
Abstract excerpt
Feed efficiency (FE) is a key trait in pig production, as improvement in FE has positive economic and environmental impact. FE is a complex phenotype and testing animals for FE is costly. Therefore, there has been a desire to find functionally relevant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as biomarkers, to improve our biological understanding of FE as well as accuracy of genomic prediction for FE. We have...
Topics
- Animal Husbandry
- Animals
- Breeding
- Denmark
- Genes, Mitochondrial
- Male
- Muscles
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait Loci
- Sus scrofa
- Transcriptome
