A bi-dimensional genome scan for prolificacy traits in pigs shows the existence of multiple epistatic QTL

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Noguera, José L ^a   Rodríguez, Carmen ^b   Varona, Luis ^a   Tomàs, Anna ^c   Muñoz, Gloria ^b   Ramírez, Oscar ^c   Barragán, Carmen ^b   Arqué, Meritxell ^a   Bidanel, Jean P ^d   Amills, Marcel ^c   Ovilo, Cristina ^b   Sánchez, Armand ^c  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b INIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 17; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; EPISTASIS; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INHERITANCE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWINE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

SUIDAE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SWINE;

EID: 75449118754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-636     Document Type: Article

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