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 …

The bones of chicken play an important role in supporting and protecting the body. The
growth and development of bones have a substantial influence on the health and production …

Bone size is an important trait for chickens because of its association with osteoporosis in
layers and meat production in broilers. Here, we employed high density genotyping …

Background In addition to additive genetic effects, epistatic interactions can play key roles in
the control of phenotypic variation of traits of interest. In the current study, 475 male birds …

Genome‐wide association studies have become possible in the chicken because of the
recent availability of the complete genome sequence, a polymorphism map and high …

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 body weight is an economically important trait and great genetic progress has been
accomplished in genetic selective for body weight. To identify genes and chromosome …

Identification of functional genes for multifactorial traits is an ongoing priority. A genome-
wide association study and gene expression study for weight and carcass composition traits …

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 …

Two informative chicken F 2 populations based on crosses between a broiler breeder male
line and dams from genetically distinct, highly inbred (> 99%) chicken lines, the Leghorn G …