QTL for mohair traits in South African Angora goats》.pdf

Small Ruminant Research 100 (2011) 8–14 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Small Ruminant Research j o u r n a l h o m e pa g e : w w w. elsev /locate/smallrumres QTL for mohair traits in South African Angora goats C. Visser a,∗ , E. Van Marle-Köster a , H. Bovenhuis b , R.P.M.A. Crooijmans b a Department of Animal Wildlife Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa b Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The aim of this study was to identify QTL associated with mohair production and quality Received 6 April 2011 traits in South African Angora goats. Limited research has been performed on QTL influ- Received in revised form 20 May 2011 encing the economically important mohair traits of Angora goats. Twelve half-sib Angora Accepted 26 May 2011 goat families with an average of 58 offspring per sire were genotyped for 88 microsatel- Available online 14 June 2011 lites covering 22 autosomes. Phenotypic data was collected at second and third shearing for males and females respectively. A linkage analysis was performed under the half-sib Keywords: model using the least squared regression approach of GridQTL. Three putative QTL were Angora goats detected for fleece weight on CHI 2, 5 and 24, which corresponds with the locations of ker- QTL Mohair