Genetics Selection Evolution

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Genome-wide mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci for fatness, fat cell characteristics and fat metabolism in three porcine F2 crosses

Hermann Geldermann1*, Stanislav Čepica2, Antonin Stratil2, Heinz Bartenschlager3 and Siegfried Preuss3

Author Affiliations

1 Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

2 Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Liběchov, Czech Republic

3 Department of Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

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Genetics Selection Evolution 2010, 42:31 doi:10.1186/1297-9686-42-31

Published: 28 July 2010

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Additional file 1:

Markers used for linkage and QTL analysis. The used marker loci are shown together with literature references and positions on the USDA MARC map. Moreover, the map positions, numbers of alleles and numbers of informative meioses are listed for each of the three crosses.

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Additional file 2:

Parameters of the traits. Numbers of observations, phenotypic means, standard deviations and determination coefficients are given for the considered traits of the F2 animals and each cross.

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Additional file 3:

Genome-wide threshold values. The threshold values, which were calculated according to [19] and with 1000 permutations, are listed for the P < 0.05 and P < 0.01 significance levels.

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