A missense mutation in growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) is strongly associated with litter size in sheep

BACKGROUND: A genome wide association study for litter size in Norwegian White Sheep (NWS) was conducted using the recently developed ovine 50K SNP chip from Illumina. After genotyping 378 progeny tested artificial insemination (AI) rams, a GWAS analysis was performed on estimated breeding values (E...

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Autores principales: Våge, Dag I, Husdal, Maren, Kent, Matthew P, Klemetsdal, Gunnar, Boman, Inger A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23280002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-14-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23280002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-14-1

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