Genome-wide QTL mapping of nine body composition and bone mineral density traits in pigs

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rothammer, Sophie ^a   Kremer, Prisca V ^a,b   Bernau, Maren ^a   Fernandez Figares, Ignacio ^c   Pfister Schär, Jennifer ^a   Medugorac, Ivica ^a   Scholz, Armin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF   (Germany)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; LINEARITY; LIVESTOCK; MINERAL; PIG; THRESHOLD;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

ANIMAL; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSS BREEDING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; INBRED STRAIN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PIG; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, INBRED STRAINS; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84925297828     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12711-014-0068-2     Document Type: Article

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