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Review
. 2023 May 30;14(6):1198.
doi: 10.3390/genes14061198.

Whole Genome Resequencing Helps Study Important Traits in Chickens

Xinwei Xiong  1 , Jianxiang Liu  1 , Yousheng Rao  1
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Whole Genome Resequencing Helps Study Important Traits in Chickens

Xinwei Xiong et al. Genes (Basel). .

Abstract

The emergence of high-throughput sequencing technology promotes life science development, provides technical support to analyze many life mechanisms, and presents new solutions to previously unsolved problems in genomic research. Resequencing technology has been widely used for genome selection and research on chicken population structure, genetic diversity, evolutionary mechanisms, and important economic traits caused by genome sequence differences since the release of chicken genome sequence information. This article elaborates on the factors influencing whole genome resequencing and the differences between these factors and whole genome sequencing. It reviews the important research progress in chicken qualitative traits (e.g., frizzle feather and comb), quantitative traits (e.g., meat quality and growth traits), adaptability, and disease resistance, and provides a theoretical basis to study whole genome resequencing in chickens.

Keywords: adaptability and disease resistance; chicken; qualitative traits; quantitative traits; whole genome resequencing.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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