Chicken growth traits are economically important, but the relevant genetic mechanisms have
not yet been elucidated. Herein, we performed a genome-wide association study to identify …

Chicken growth traits are important economic traits in broilers. A large number of studies are
available on finding genetic factors affecting chicken growth. However, most of these studies …

Chicken (Gallus gallus) growth traits are important economic traits, and many studies have
been conducted on genetic selection for body weight. However, most of these studies have …

This study was designed to investigate the genetic basis of growth and egg traits in
Dongxiang blue‐shelled chickens and White Leghorn chickens. In this study, we employed …

Body composition and meat quality traits are important economic traits of chickens. The
development of high-throughput genotyping platforms and relevant statistical methods have …

Background Wenchang chickens are one of the most popular local chicken breeds in the
Chinese chicken industry. However, the low feed efficiency is the main shortcoming of this …

Understanding the genetic control of growth traits is one of the most important breeding
goals in poultry industry. In order to find genes and genomic regions affecting growth traits …

Rapid growth is one of the most important economic traits in broiler breeding programs.
Identifying markers and genes for growth traits may not only benefit marker-assisted …

Carcass traits are important to the commercial chicken industry, and understanding the
genetics of these traits will be useful in the development of commercially viable varieties of …

There have been several genome-wide association study (GWAS) reported for carcass,
growth, and meat traits in chickens. Most of these studies have been based on single SNPs …