Genome-wide association analyses for boar taint components and testicular traits revealed regions having pleiotropic effects

BMC Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Große Brinkhaus, Christine ^a   Storck, Leonie C ^a   Frieden, Luc ^a   Neuhoff, Christiane ^a   Schellander, Karl ^a   Looft, Christian ^a   Tholen, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Androstenone; Boar taint; GWAS; Pigs; Pleiotropy; Testis size

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENONE; INDOLE; SKATOLE; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CARCASS; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYBRID; MALE; MATING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PIETRAIN PIG; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROGENY; PUBERTY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STEROID METABOLISM; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS SIZE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HAPLOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; PIG; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE; TESTIS;

EID: 84976593284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12863-015-0194-z     Document Type: Article

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