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Genome-wide association study for litter size and litter size variability in Large White pigs based on a whole-genome sequence data.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jun 2026
Cieleń G, Derks M F L, Boshove A, Sell-Kubiak E
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The objective of this study was to analyse the genomic basis of litter size variability. We used 172 644 observations on the total number born (TNB) from 40 518 Large White sows. First, the variance components and heritability for TNB were estimated using ASReml. Then, based on those results, the log-transformed variance of residuals for TNB (LnVarTNB) was used to quantify phenotypic variability and estimate its...
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