Genomic selection in commercial pig breeding

Animal Frontiers

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 15-22

  Knol, Egbert Frank ^a   Nielsen, Bjarne ^b   Knap, Pieter W ^c  

^a TOPIGS Research Center IPG   (Netherlands)

^b SEGES Videncenter for Svineproduktion   (Denmark)

^c Genus PIC   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA marker; Genome wide prediction; Industry; SNP; Swine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997038659     PISSN: 21606056     EISSN: 21606064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/af.2016-0003     Document Type: Article

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