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Polymorphisms of the IGF1R gene and their genetic effects on chicken early growth and carcass traits

Mingming Lei1,2 email, Xia Peng1 email, Min Zhou1 email, Chenglong Luo1 email, Qinghua Nie1 email and Xiquan Zhang1 email

Department of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, PR China

Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Science, Guangzhou 510640, Guangdong, PR China

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BMC Genetics 2008, 9:70doi:10.1186/1471-2156-9-70

Published: 7 November 2008

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Linkage disequilibrium of the Xinghua chickens and Recessive White Rock chickens. Pairwise LD versus physical distance between all pairwise SNP, average values of r2 show that LD declines with increasing physical distance between SNP pairs.

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