Domestic-animal genomics: deciphering the genetics of complex traits. Academic Article

abstract

• One of the 'grand challenges' in modern biology is to understand the genetic basis of phenotypic diversity within and among species. Thousands of years of selective breeding of domestic animals has created a diversity of phenotypes among breeds that is only matched by that observed among species in nature. Domestic animals therefore constitute a unique resource for understanding the genetic basis of phenotypic variation. When the genome sequences of domestic animals become available the identification of the mutations that underlie the transformation from a wild to a domestic species will be a realistic and important target.

authors

• Andersson, Leif

published proceedings

• Nat Rev Genet

altmetric score

• 38.056

author list (cited authors)

• Andersson, L., & Georges, M.

citation count

• 438

complete list of authors

• Andersson, Leif||Georges, Michel

publication date

• March 2004

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Nature Reviews Genetics  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Animals, Domestic
• Cattle
• Chickens
• Chromosome Mapping
• Dogs
• Epistasis, Genetic
• Genomics
• Insulin-Like Growth Factor II
• Multifactorial Inheritance
• Quantitative Trait Loci
• Swine

PubMed Central ID

• 14970822

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1038/nrg1294

start page

• 202

end page

• 212

volume

• 5

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg1294