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A genome-wide association study reveals additive and dominance effects on growth and fatness traits in large white pigs.
Animal genetics - 1 Oct 2021
Yang W, Wu J, Yu J, Zheng X, Kang H, Wang Z, Zhang S, Zhou L, Liu J
Abstract excerpt
The dominance effect is a kind of non-additive effect due to the interaction between alleles at the same locus. Quantitative traits such as growth traits in farm animals have been found to be influenced by dominance effects. However, dominance effects are usually ignored in the genome-wide association study (GWAS) of complex traits for farm animals. In this study, we performed GWAS and genetic parameters...
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