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Mapping main, epistatic and sex-specific QTL for body composition in a chicken population divergently selected for low or high growth rate

BACKGROUND: Delineating the genetic basis of body composition is important to agriculture and medicine. In addition, the incorporation of gene-gene interactions in the statistical model provides further insight into the genetic factors that underlie body composition traits. We used Bayesian model se...

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Autores principales: Ankra-Badu, Georgina A, Shriner, Daniel, Le Bihan-Duval, Elisabeth, Mignon-Grasteau, Sandrine, Pitel, Frédérique, Beaumont, Catherine, Duclos, Michel J, Simon, Jean, Porter, Tom E, Vignal, Alain, Cogburn, Larry A, Allison, David B, Yi, Nengjun, Aggrey, Samuel E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2830984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20149241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-11-107