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What is the Pic’let project ?

What is the Pic’let project ?

The Pic’Let project, which started in January 2020, is the result of a collaboration between Alliance R&D, which is composed of several French pig breeding companies including Choice and IFIP (the French national pig institute) with Neotec-Vision (a partner...
What is Genomic selection? What is its use at Choice?

What is Genomic selection? What is its use at Choice?

Obtaining the genomic information Genomic selection is a way to select animals based on genotyping or reading the DNA of the candidate. The pig’s genome was first mapped in 2009 (Archibald et al.) and so-called DNA-chips (or SNP-chips) were developed. These chips are...