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A systematic survey to identify lethal recessive variation in highly managed pig populations

BACKGROUND: Lethal recessive variation can cause prenatal death of homozygous offspring. Although usually present at low-frequency in populations, the impact on individual fitness can be substantial. Until recently, the presence of recessive embryonic lethal variation could only be measured indirect...

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Autores principales: Derks, Martijn F. L., Megens, Hendrik-Jan, Bosse, Mirte, Lopes, Marcos S., Harlizius, Barbara, Groenen, Martien A. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29121877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4278-1