A meta analysis of genome-wide association studies for limb bone lengths in four pig populations

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• 作者：Yuanmei Guo ; Lijuan Hou ; Xufei Zhang ; Min Huang ; Huirong Mao ; Hao Chen…
• 关键词：Limb bone length ; Meta analysis ; Pig ; Genome ; wide association study
• 刊名：BMC Genetics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：865 KB
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences, general; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Genetics and Population Dynamics;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2156

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Background Limb bone length is an economically important trait in pigs, because it is negatively correlated with backfat thickness, and is also a determinant to the yield of hip and loin. Moreover, abnormal growth of the limb bone leads to leg structural weakness. Until now, the genetic architecture of the pig lime bone length remains poorly understood. The object of this study was to map genomic loci for limb bone length by genome-wide association study (GWAS) on 4 pig populations.