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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2013-01-01
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| Series: | BMC Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/14/1 |