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The identification of 14 new genes for meat quality traits in chicken using a genome-wide association study

BACKGROUND: Meat quality is an important economic trait in chickens. To identify loci and genes associated with meat quality traits, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of F2 populations derived from a local Chinese breed (Beijing-You chickens) and a commercial fast-growing broiler l...

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Autores principales: Sun, Yanfa, Zhao, Guiping, Liu, Ranran, Zheng, Maiqing, Hu, Yaodong, Wu, Dan, Zhang, Lei, Li, Peng, Wen, Jie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3707761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23834466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-458