Genome-wide association studies on growth performance trait of Nigerian indigenous Chicken genotypes
Meat from Nigerian indigenous chickens (NICs) has high consumer demands but slow growth rate with high variability in body weight (BW). A study was carried out at T&R farm of FUNAAB identifying chromosomes associated with body weights of NICs in a GWAS study using the chicken 60K Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs)...