Quantitative trait loci mapping for the shear force value in breast muscle of F2chickens
2019
Ono, Takashi | Kouguchi, Tomomi | Ishikawa, Akira | Nagano, Atsushi J | Takenouchi, Atsushi | Igawa, Takeshi | Tsudzuki, Masaoki
The shear force value is one of the major traits that determine meat quality. In the present study, we performed QTL analysis for chicken breast muscle shear force value at 7 wk of age using 545 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers developed via restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq). An F₂resource family was generated by mating Oh-Shamo, a native Japanese chicken breed, and the White Plymouth Rock chicken breed. A total of 215 F₂birds were produced. Simple interval mapping revealed one significant main-effect QTL between 6.28 and 8.10 Mb SNPs on the chromosome Z with a logarithm of odds score of 5.53 at the genome-wide 5% level. At this QTL, the confidence interval, phenotypic variance explained, and additive effect were 26 cM, 12.24%, and –0.31 in males and –0.34 in females, respectively. No QTL with epistatic interaction effects were detected. To our knowledge, this is the first report on a QTL affecting the shear force value in the chicken breast muscle, using SNP markers derived from RAD-seq.
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