Linkage disequilibrium reveals different demographic history in egg laying chickens

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The availability of larger-scale SNP data sets in the chicken genome allows to achieve a higher resolution of the pattern of linkage disequilibrium (LD). In this study, 36 k and 57 k genotypes from two independent genotyping chips we...

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Main Authors: Preisinger Rudolf, Weigend Steffen, Hansen Maria, Qanbari Saber, Simianer Henner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-11-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/11/103