Association of predicted deleterious single nucleotide polymorphisms with carcass traits in meat-type chickens
Breeding has been the mainly responsible for the increase of poultry efficiency in the last decades. The breeding programs are geared towards higher meat yield and feed efficiency. Among the used genomic approaches, genome wide association studies (GWAS) identified quantitative trait loci (QTLs) ass...
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Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
2018
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Online Access: | http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/11/11139/tde-21082018-152925/ |