Genome-wide association study identified a narrow chromosome 1 region associated with chicken growth traits.

Chicken growth traits are important economic traits in broilers. A large number of studies are available on finding genetic factors affecting chicken growth. However, most of these studies identified chromosome regions containing putative quantitative trait loci and finding causal mutations is still...

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Main Authors: Liang Xie, Chenglong Luo, Chengguang Zhang, Rong Zhang, Jun Tang, Qinghua Nie, Li Ma, Xiaoxiang Hu, Ning Li, Yang Da, Xiquan Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22359555/pdf/?tool=EBI