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We thank V. Verleyen, S. Scalais, L. Grobet, C. Schirvel and C. Dasnois for their help in collecting and organizing the biological samples and phenotypic data; M. Rothschild for providing us with primer pairs for microsatellite amplification; Seghers Hybrid for their support and interest in this work; and L. Andersson for fruitful discussions. This work was supported by the Belgian Ministère des Classes Moyennes et de l'Agriculture.
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Nezer, C., Moreau, L., Brouwers, B. et al. An imprinted QTL with major effect on muscle mass and fat deposition maps to the IGF2 locus in pigs. Nat Genet 21, 155–156 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/5935
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