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The role of the USDA-CSRS National Pig Genome Coordinator
is to help facilitate development of
pig genome mapping and the search for important quantitative trait loci.
The USDA-CSRS selected team from Iowa State University and their percent
of time contributed include
Max Rothschild (30%) as national coordinator and he is assisted
by his colleagues Drs. Philip Spike (15%), Chris Tuggle (5%) and Lauren
Christian (5%).
Dr. Phil Spike helps with computing and database development,
Dr. Chris Tuggle assists in development of molecular
biology tools and
Dr. Lauren Christian assisted with industry matters until his recent
unfortunate death.
Dr. Jack Dekkers and
Dr. Rohan Fernando will be assisting with some new
programs.
Dr. Lizhen Wang,
Dr. Zhiliang Hu and
Dr. Yuandan
Zhang have been assisting in database development, curation
and other genome related activities such as web site/database design,
programs authoring and implementations.
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