Diversity across major and candidate genes in European local pig breeds.

The aim of this work was to analyse the distribution of causal and candidate mutations associated to relevant productive traits in twenty local European pig breeds. Also, the potential of the SNP panel employed for elucidating the genetic structure and relationships among breeds was evaluated. Most...

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Main Authors: María Muñoz, Riccardo Bozzi, Fabián García, Yolanda Núñez, Claudia Geraci, Alessandro Crovetti, Juan García-Casco, Estefania Alves, Martin Škrlep, Rui Charneca, Jose M Martins, Raquel Quintanilla, Joan Tibau, Goran Kušec, Ivona Djurkin-Kušec, Marie J Mercat, Juliette Riquet, Jordi Estellé, Christoph Zimmer, Violeta Razmaite, Jose P Araujo, Čedomir Radović, Radomir Savić, Danijel Karolyi, Maurizio Gallo, Marjeta Čandek-Potokar, Luca Fontanesi, Ana I Fernández, Cristina Óvilo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6245784?pdf=render