A global search reveals epistatic interaction between QTL for early growth in the chicken

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 413-421

  Carlborg, Örjan ^a,b   Kerje, Susanne ^a   Schütz, Karin ^a   Jacobsson, Lina ^a   Jensen, Per ^a   Andersson, Leif ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; CHRONOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC MARKERS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0037350268     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.528003     Document Type: Article

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