Email updates   Open Access Research article   Naomi
Duijvesteijn1*, Egbert F Knol1, Jan WM Merks1, Richard PMA
Crooijmans2, Martien AM Groenen2, Henk Bovenhuis2 and Barbara
Harlizius1  Author Affiliations  1 IPG, Institute for Pig
Genetics B.V., PO Box 43, 6640AA, Beuningen, the Netherlands  2
ABG, Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University,
PO Box 338, 67001 AH Wageningen, the Netherlands  For all author
emails, please log on.  BMC Genetics 2010, 11:42 
doi:10.1186/1471-2156-11-42   Received:18 March 2010 Accepted:20
May 2010 Published:20 May 2010  © 2010 Duijvesteijn et al;
licensee BioMed Central Ltd.     In many countries, male piglets
are castrated shortly after birth because a proportion of un-
castrated male pigs produce meat with an unpleasant flavour and
odour. Main compounds of boar taint are androstenone and
skatole. The aim of this high-density genome-wide association
study was to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
associated with androstenone levels in a commercial si