Genome-wide association study and a post replication analysis revealed a promising genomic region and candidate genes for chicken eggshell blueness

• Hesham Y. A. Darwish ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hesham Y. A. Darwish, Seyed Benyamin Dalirsefat

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Animal Production Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Giza, Egypt

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• Seyed Benyamin Dalirsefat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hesham Y. A. Darwish, Seyed Benyamin Dalirsefat

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Guilan, Iran

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• Xianggui Dong,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Guoying Hua,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Jianfei Chen,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Yuanyuan Zhang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Jianxiong Li,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Jiangxi Donghua Livestock & Poultry Breeding Co. Ltd., Jiangxi, China

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• Jiansheng Xu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Jiangxi Donghua Livestock & Poultry Breeding Co. Ltd., Jiangxi, China

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• Junying Li,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Xuemei Deng ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: deng@cau.edu.cn

  Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-6499

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• Changxin Wu

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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