Linkage disequilibrium compared between five populations of domestic sheep

BMC Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Meadows, Jennifer R S ^a,b   Chan, Eva K F ^a   Kijas, James W ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CROSS BREEDING; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBREEDING; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOME;

OVIS ARIES;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 54949086378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-9-61     Document Type: Article

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