Genome-wide scan reveals LEMD3 and WIF1 on SSC5 as the candidates for porcine ear size.

The quantitative trait loci (QTL) for porcine ear size was previously reported to mainly focus on SSC5 and SSC7. Recently, a missense mutation, G32E, in PPARD in the QTL interval on SSC7 was identified as the causative mutation for ear size. However, on account of the large interval of QTL, the resp...

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Main Authors: Longchao Zhang, Jing Liang, Weizhen Luo, Xin Liu, Hua Yan, Kebin Zhao, Huibi Shi, Yuebo Zhang, Ligang Wang, Lixian Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4090188?pdf=render