A missense mutation in growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) is strongly associated with litter size in sheep
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- 1 January 2013
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- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Genetics
- Vol. 14 (1) , 1
Abstract
A genome wide association study for litter size in Norwegian White Sheep (NWS) was conducted using the recently developed ovine 50K SNP chip from Illumina. After genotyping 378 progeny tested artificial insemination (AI) rams, a GWAS analysis was performed on estimated breeding values (EBVs) for litter size.Keywords
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