Identification of a second gene associated with variation in vertebral number in domestic pigs

BMC Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mikawa, Satoshi ^a   Sato, Shuji ^a,f   Nii, Masahiro ^b   Morozumi, Takeya ^c   Yoshioka, Gou ^d   Imaeda, Noriaki ^d   Yamaguchi, Tsuneko ^e   Hayashi, Takeshi ^a,g   Awata, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Livestock Research Institute   (Japan)

^c STAFF Institute   (Japan)

^d Gifu Prefectural Livestock Research Institute   (Japan)

^e Chiba Prefecture Livestock Research Center   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL LIVESTOCK BREEDING CENTER   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREED; CHROMOSOME; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DOMESTIC PIG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAMMAL; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRA; WILD BOAR; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; SPINE; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; GENETIC VARIATION; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SPINE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 78651362138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-12-5     Document Type: Article

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