Commercial chicken breeds exhibit highly divergent patterns of linkage disequilibrium

Citation

Pengelly RJ, Gheyas AA, Kuo R, Mossotto E, Seaby EG, Burt DW, Ennis S & Collins A (2016) Commercial chicken breeds exhibit highly divergent patterns of linkage disequilibrium. Heredity, 117 (5), pp. 375-382. https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2016.47

Abstract
The analysis of linkage disequilibrium (LD) underpins the development of effective genotyping technologies, trait mapping and understanding of biological mechanisms such as those driving recombination and the impact of selection. We apply the Malécot-Morton model of LD to create additive LD maps that describe the high-resolution LD landscape of commercial chickens. We investigated LD in chickens (Gallus gallus) at the highest resolution to date for broiler, white egg and brown egg layer commercial lines. There is minimal concordance between breeds of fine-scale LD patterns (correlation coefficient

Keywords
Genetics (clinical); Genetics

Journal
Heredity: Volume 117, Issue 5

People

Dr Almas Gheyas

Lecturer in Aquaculture Production Scien, Institute of Aquaculture