Epistatic effects on abdominal fat content in chickens: results from a genome-wide SNP-SNP interaction analysis.

We performed a pairwise epistatic interaction test using the chicken 60 K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chip for the 11(th) generation of the Northeast Agricultural University broiler lines divergently selected for abdominal fat content. A linear mixed model was used to test two dimensions of...

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Main Authors: Fangge Li, Guo Hu, Hui Zhang, Shouzhi Wang, Zhipeng Wang, Hui Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3855290?pdf=render