Genome‐wide association study for growth and fatness traits in Chinese Sujiang pigs

Summary Growth and fatness traits are complex and economically important traits in the pig industry. The molecular basis underlying porcine growth and fatness traits remains largely unknown. To uncover genetic loci and candidate genes for these traits, we explored the GeneSeek GGP Porcine 80K SNP ch...

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Published in:Animal genetics 2020-03, Vol.51 (2), p.314-318
Main Authors: Xu, P., Ni, L., Tao, Y., Ma, Z., Hu, T., Zhao, X., Yu, Z., Lu, C., Ren, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal husbandry
Body weight
candidate genes
Chest
Chinese pig
Chromosome 4
Chromosomes
Circumferences
Gene loci
Gene mapping
Genes
Genome-wide association studies
Genomes
GWAS
phenotypic traits
QTL
Quantitative trait loci
Selective breeding
Single-nucleotide polymorphism
Swine
Thickness
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Summary:Summary Growth and fatness traits are complex and economically important traits in the pig industry. The molecular basis underlying porcine growth and fatness traits remains largely unknown. To uncover genetic loci and candidate genes for these traits, we explored the GeneSeek GGP Porcine 80K SNP chip to perform a GWAS for seven growth and fatness traits in 365 individuals from the Sujiang pig, a recently developed breed in China. We identified two, 17, one and 11 SNPs surpassing the suggestively significant threshold (P 
ISSN:0268-9146
1365-2052
DOI:10.1111/age.12899