Detecting parent of origin and dominant QTL in a two-generation commercial poultry pedigree using variance component methodology
Abstract Introduction Variance component QTL methodology was used to analyse three candidate regions on chicken chromosomes Fr Coveralls 1, 4 and 5 for dominant and parent-of-origin QTL effects.Data were available for bodyweight and conformation score measured at 40 days from a two-generation commercial broiler dam line.One hundred dams were nested