Investigation of the genetic architecture of a bone carcass weight QTL on BTA6

Animal Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 654-661

  Gutierrez Gil B ^a   Wiener, P ^b   Williams, J L ^b,c   Haley, C S ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c PARCO TECNOLOGICO PADANO   (Italy)

^d WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bone carcass weight; candidate gene; fine mapping; quantitative trait locus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 84867576243     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2012.02322.x     Document Type: Article

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