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Full Genome Sequence of 70 TOPIGS Pigs

2013-08-30 06:00:00| National Hog Farmer

Researchers from the Animal Breding and Genomics Group at Wageningen University and TOPIGS recently sequenced the full genome of 70 TOPIGS pigs. As a result of the sequencing, more than 10 million new SNPs have been identified. The information from this sequencing increases the range of possibilities TOPIGS has to improve and speed up genetic progress within it lines. Having more precise information about the effect of genes and where they are located improves the accuracy of breeding and also makes it possible to breed for new traits. read more

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The next big thing in pregnancy: Sequencing your baby's genome

2013-08-12 18:50:46| Biotech - Topix.net

Every year, the United States welcomes four million new babies into the world, the result of roughly four million pregnancies that in large part go through the same battery of prenatal health checks four million times: analyses of the mother's blood and urine, of the mother's blood pressure, of the mother's weight, of the mother's blood sugar--even ... (more)

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Mapping of Oil Palm Genome Could Boost Productivity of Key Crop, Study Says

2013-07-25 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: Scientists say they have identified the gene responsible for the yield of oil palm crops, a discovery that could boost the productivity of the worlds top source of vegetable oil and help reduce the size of oil palm plantations in the worlds tropical regions. Writing in the journal Nature, Malaysian and U.S. researchers describe the mapping of the genome of the oil palm, whose products are used in everything from food to cosmetics to biofuels. According to the scientists, the so-called shell gene...

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