Genome-wide association studies for growth and meat production traits in sheep.

BACKGROUND: Growth and meat production traits are significant economic traits in sheep. The aim of the study is to identify candidate genes affecting growth and meat production traits at genome level with high throughput single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) genotyping technologies. METHODOLOGY AND...

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Main Authors: Li Zhang, Jiasen Liu, Fuping Zhao, Hangxing Ren, Lingyang Xu, Jian Lu, Shifang Zhang, Xiaoning Zhang, Caihong Wei, Guobin Lu, Youmin Zheng, Lixin Du
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3692449?pdf=render