Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Loci and Candidate Genes for Body Composition and Meat Quality Traits in Beijing-You Chickens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Ranran ^a,b   Sun, Yanfa ^a,c   Zhao, Guiping ^a,b   Wang, Fangjie ^a,d   Wu, Dan ^a,b   Zheng, Maiqing ^a,b   Chen, Jilan ^a,b   Zhang, Lei ^a,b   Hu, Yaodong ^a,b   Wen, Jie ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition   (China)

^c YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ARTICLE; ASF1A GENE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; CHICKEN MEAT; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; FABP7 GENE; FAT CONTENT; FOXN4 GENE; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GJA1 GENE; LAP3 GENE; LCORL GENE; LDB2 GENE; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTF2 GENE; PHENOTYPE; QDPR GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAPT1 GENE; THIGH; TPD52L1 GENE;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MALE; MEAT; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, MESSENGER;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 84876338170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061172     Document Type: Article

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