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Conservation priority and run of homozygosity pattern assessment of global chicken genetic resources.
Poultry science - 1 Nov 2023
Gao Chaoqun, Wang Kejun, Hu Xiaoyu, Lei Yanru, Xu Chunhong, Tian Yixiang, Sun Guirong, Tian Yadong, Kang Xiangtao, Li Wenting
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The conservation of genetic resources is becoming increasingly important for the sustainable development of the poultry industry. In the present study, we systematically analyzed the population structure, conservation priority, runs of homozygosity (ROH) of chicken breeds globally, and proposed rational conservation strategies. We used a 600K Affymetrix Axiom HD genotyping SNP array dataset of 2,429 chickens from...
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