Article
Genetic insights into large and small body size variation in Diqing Tibetan pigs: A comparative genomic analysis.
Genomics - 1 Mar 2026
Jin Siqi, Dong Xinxing, Zhou Chunlu, Chu Jinyu, Li Xinpeng, Li Wangjiao, Dong Wenjun, Ma Yunlong, Yan Dawei
Abstract excerpt
In Diqing Prefecture, we identified two Tibetan pig groups that exhibit a significant difference in body size at six months of age, with the large-bodied pigs weighing 55.00 kg and the small-bodied pigs weighing 28.00 kg. To elucidate the genetic distance and relatedness between these two groups, we employed whole-genome resequencing and constructed a genomic dataset containing 247 pigs, including 60 newly...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Size
- Swine
- Tibet
- Phylogeny
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Gene Frequency
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Female