Detection of Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Live Measurement Traits in Pigs

Live measurement growth traits are very important economic traits in pig production and breeding. In this research, quantitative trait loci (QTL) were detected for 11 live estimated growth and carcass traits, including birth weight (BWT), average daily gain over testing periods (ADG3), live backfat thickness at last 3–4th lumbar (LBFT3), live loin eye area (LLEA), and so on, in 214 pig resource family population, including 180 F2 individual, by 39 microsatellite marker loci on SSC4, SSC6, SSC7, SSC8, and SSC13. The results indicated that 4 chromosome significant level QTL and one suggestive QTL were detected for ADG3 (at position of 50 cM on SSC8), LBFT3 (at position of 147 cM on SSC4), LLEA (one highly significant at position of 48 cM on SSC7; another significant at position of 125 cM on SSC8) and BWT (suggestive significant at position of 0 cM, at marker sw489 on SSC4). The phenotypic variance of these QTL accounted for 0.95% to 16.91%. Most of them were mentioned in previous reports; except the QTL of LLEA at position of sw 1953 on SSC8 which maybe a new QTL.