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laid over the duration of the laying period (from to weeks), is one of the most commonly used ones for selection purposes in commercial broilers [ , ]. as a typical reproductive trait, en presents low to medium additive heritability estimates. in broiler hens, pedigree-based additive heritability for
production [ , , ] and egg quality traits [ , , , , ]. it is noted that these studies have been focusing on en in layer chickens and not broiler breeders. moreover, to our knowledge, there is only one study [ ] that aimed at identifying dominant snps for egg production and quality traits in chickens...
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-020-06915-1