Genome-Wide Association Studies Associated with Backfat Thickness in Landrace and Yorkshire Pigs.

ABSTRACT: Although pork quality traits are important commercially, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have not well considered Landrace and Yorkshire pigs worldwide. Landrace and Yorkshire pigs are important pork-providing breeds. Although quantitative trait loci of pigs are well-developed, significant genes in GWASs of pigs in Korea must be studied. Through a GWAS using the PLINK program, study of the significant genes in Korean pigs was performed. We conducted a GWAS and surveyed the gene ontology (GO) terms associated with the backfat thickness (BF) trait of these pigs. We included the breed information (Yorkshire and Landrace pigs) as a covariate. The significant genes after false discovery rate (＜0.01) correction were AFG1L, SCAI, RIMS1, and SPDEF. The major GO terms for the top 5% of gene

SUBMITTER: Lee YS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6187814 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature