Genome-wide association study of body weight in Australian Merino sheep reveals an orthologous region on OAR6 to human and bovine genomic regions affecting height and weight

BACKGROUND: Body weight (BW) is an important trait for meat production in sheep. Although over the past few years, numerous quantitative trait loci (QTL) have been detected for production traits in cattle, few QTL studies have been reported for sheep, with even fewer on meat production traits. Our o...

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Autores principales: Al-Mamun, Hawlader A., Kwan, Paul, Clark, Samuel A., Ferdosi, Mohammad H., Tellam, Ross, Gondro, Cedric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4536601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26272623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-015-0142-4

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