Table 7.
Numbers of unique and shared prioritized candidate genes by phenotypic category across the studied chicken breeds1
| Phenotypic category2 | n3 | Unique genes | Shared genes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USH | OMF | RUW | WCR | USH | OMF | RUW | WCR | ||
| Cold tolerance | 84 | 60 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 |
| Domestication | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Egg traits | 68 | 44 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 12 |
| Energy and feed intake | 27 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Fat metabolism | 83 | 38 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 19 | 4 | 2 |
| Growth, meat, carcass | 131 | 74 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 41 | 24 | 10 | 17 |
| Immunity | 140 | 69 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 57 | 34 | 18 | 14 |
| Reproduction | 55 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 7 |
| Response to heat | 35 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 5 |
| Skin, feather, skin other appendages | 76 | 37 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 26 | 15 | 8 | 6 |
| Stress and adaptation | 47 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 2 |
| Thermosensation | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
1 Breeds: OMF Orloff Mille Fleur, RUW Russian White, USH Ushanka, WCR White Cornish. 2 Phenotypic categories were attributed to PCGs based on relevant PubMed publications (see Materials and Methods). 3 Total number of genes per category