Genome-wide association study of body weight in chicken F2 resource population.

Chicken body weight is an economically important trait and great genetic progress has been accomplished in genetic selective for body weight. To identify genes and chromosome regions associated with body weight, we performed a genome-wide association study using the chicken 60 k SNP panel in a chick...

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Main Authors: Xiaorong Gu, Chungang Feng, Li Ma, Chi Song, Yanqiang Wang, Yang Da, Huifang Li, Kuanwei Chen, Shaohui Ye, Changrong Ge, Xiaoxiang Hu, Ning Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3136483?pdf=render