A meta analysis of genome-wide association studies for limb bone lengths in four pig populations

BMC Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Guo, Yuanmei ^a   Hou, Lijuan ^a   Zhang, Xufei ^a,b   Huang, Min ^a   Mao, Huirong ^a   Chen, Hao ^a   Ma, Junwu ^a   Chen, Congying ^a   Ai, Huashui ^a   Ren, Jun ^a   Huang, Lusheng ^a  

^a JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genome wide association study; Limb bone length; Meta analysis; Pig

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE LENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUROC PIG; ERHUALIAN PIG; FEMALE; FEMUR; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HMGA1 GENE; HUMERUS; LAIWU PIG; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PIG BREED; PLAG1 GENE; SCAPULA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SSC 7 GENE; SUTAI PIG; TIBIA; ULNA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BONE; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; LIMB; META ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PIG; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS; SUS SCROFA;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EXTREMITIES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SWINE;

EID: 84937849178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12863-015-0257-1     Document Type: Article

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