The imprinted gene DIO3 is a candidate gene for litter size in pigs.

Genomic imprinting is an important epigenetic phenomenon, which on the phenotypic level can be detected by the difference between the two heterozygote classes of a gene. Imprinted genes are important in both the development of the placenta and the embryo, and we hypothesized that imprinted genes mig...

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Main Authors: Albart Coster, Ole Madsen, Henri C M Heuven, Bert Dibbits, Martien A M Groenen, Johan A M van Arendonk, Henk Bovenhuis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3290540?pdf=render