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Meta-analyses of genome wide association studies in lines of laying hens divergently selected for feather pecking using imputed sequence level genotypes.
BMC genetics - 1 Oct 2020
Falker-Gieske Clemens, Iffland Hanna, Preuß Siegfried, Bessei Werner, Drögemüller Cord, Bennewitz Jörn, Tetens Jens
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BACKGROUND: Feather pecking (FP) is damaging behavior in laying hens leading to global economic losses in the layer industry and massive impairments of animal welfare. The objective of the study was to discover genetic variants and affected genes that lead to FP behavior. To achieve that we imputed low-density genotypes from two different populations of layers divergently selected for FP to sequence level by...
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