Genome-wide association study and pathway analysis identify NTRK2 as a novel candidate gene for litter size in sheep

• Seyed Mehdi Esmaeili-Fard ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mehdi.esmaeilifard@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences and Fisheries, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University (SANRU), Sari, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7509-5030

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• Mohsen Gholizadeh,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences and Fisheries, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University (SANRU), Sari, Iran

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• Seyed Hasan Hafezian,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences and Fisheries, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University (SANRU), Sari, Iran

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• Rostam Abdollahi-Arpanahi

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

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