Date: 29 August ‘07; 08:30 - 12:30 hours

Chairperson: J. Szyda (PL)

Theatre Session 38

• Chromosome regions affecting body weight in egg layers
  Honkatukia, M., M. Tuiskula-Haavisto and J. Vilkki
• Multivariate models applied to QTL detection for carcass composition on SSC7
  Gilbert, H., P. Le Roy, D. Milan and J.P. Bidanel
• Investigation of bovine chromosome 20 for QTL affecting milk production traits using a selective milk DNA pooling strategy and individual genotyping in a daughter design
  Fontanesi, L., E. Scotti, M. Dolezal, E. Lipkin, S. Dall’olio, P. Zambonelli, D. Bigi, F. Canavesi, R. Davoli, M. Soller and V. Russo
• Need for sharp phenotypes in QTL detection for calving traits in dairy cattle
  Seidenspinner, T., J. Bennewitz, F. Reinhardt and G. Thaller
• Detection of quantitative trait loci for udder traits and stature in Finnish Ayrshire
  Schulman, N.F., S.M. Viitala and J.H. Vilkki
• Fine mapping of QTL for mastitis resistance on BTA11 in three Nordic Red cattle breeds
  Sahana, G., M.S. Lund, L. Andersson-Eklund, N. Schulman, S. Viitala, T. Iso-Touru, S. Värv, H. Viinalass and J. Vilkki
• QTL detection for male fertility traits in dairy cattle
  Druet, T., B. Basso, E. Sellem, L. Salas-Cortes, P. Humblot, X. Druart and S. Fritz
• QTL detection for fatty acid composition on porcine chromosome 12 and analysis of the candidate genes FASN, GIP and ACACA
  Alves, E., G. Muñoz, A. Fernández, A.I. Fernández, C. Barragán, J. Estellé, R. Quintanilla, L. Silió, M.C. Rodríguez and C. Óvilo
• Weight gain of F2-gilts depends on its paternally inherited IGF2-allele
  Heuven, H.C.M., B.T.T.M. Van Rens, E.M. Van Grevenhof and H. Bovenhuis
• A novel approach for estimating allele frequencies of lethal autosomal-recessive genetic disorders
  Manatrinon, S., C. Egger- Danner and R. Baumung
• Concordance between IBD probabilities and linkage disequilibrium
  Ytournel, F., D. Boichard and H. Gilbert
• Benefits of using phenotypic measures of dams for estimating QTL variance components and MA-BLUP EBV
  Neuner, S., R. Emmerling, G. Thaller and K.-U. Götz
• Using bioinformatics to reduce the search for genes to a known 4% of the bovine genome
  Pollott, G.E.