Genotyping: How useful is it for producers?

In the dairy cattle industry, terminology like SNPs, genomic selection and genomic breeding values have already been around for some years now. In the swine industry, technology related to sequencing of the pig genome has started somewhat later but is now well underway. Where are we and what prospects does the technology offer for the industry? By Christopher K. Tuggle and Jack C.M. Dekkers, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA The sequencing of the pig genome will be comple