A missense mutation in <it>growth differentiation factor 9</it> (<it>GDF9</it>) is strongly associated with litter size in sheep

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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...

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Main Authors: Våge Dag I, Husdal Maren, Kent Matthew P, Klemetsdal Gunnar, Boman Inger A
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMC 2013-01-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/14/1
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