TY - JOUR AU - Wu, Pingxian AU - Wang, Kai AU - Zhou, Jie AU - Yang, Qiang AU - Yang, Xidi AU - Jiang, Anan AU - Jiang, Yanzhi AU - Li, Mingzhou AU - Zhu, Li AU - Bai, Lin AU - Li, Xuewei AU - Tang, Guoqing PY - 2019 DA - 2019/01/07 TI - A genome wide association study for the number of animals born dead in domestic pigs JO - BMC Genetics SP - 4 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - The number of animals born dead, which includes the number of mummified (NM) and stillborn (NS) animals, is the most important trait to directly quantify the reproductive loss in domestic pigs. In this study, 282 Landrace sows and 250 Large White sows were genotyped by sequencing (GBS). A total of 816 and 1068 litter records for NM and NS were collected from them. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) was conducted to reveal the genetic difference between NM and NS. SN - 1471-2156 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-018-0692-x DO - 10.1186/s12863-018-0692-x ID - Wu2019 ER -