A systematic survey to identify lethal recessive variation in highly managed pig populations

BACKGROUND: Lethal recessive variation can cause prenatal death of homozygous offspring. Although usually present at low-frequency in populations, the impact on individual fitness can be substantial. Until recently, the presence of recessive embryonic lethal variation could only be measured indirect...

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Published in:BMC Genomics
Main Authors: Derks, Martijn F. L., Megens, Hendrik-Jan, Bosse, Mirte, Lopes, Marcos S., Harlizius, Barbara, Groenen, Martien A. M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680825/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29121877
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4278-1
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