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Örjan Carlborg

Örjan Carlborg

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Genetics

D-Index
45
Citations
10944
World Ranking
4208
National Ranking
51

Overview

Örjan Carlborg is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, particularly emphasizing genetics and animal science.

The main fields of study for Örjan Carlborg include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields of study include:

  • Genetics
  • Animal Science and Zoology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Cell Biology

The core topics covered by their research are:

  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Animal Nutrition and Physiology
  • Livestock and Poultry Management
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology

Some of the frequent publication venues include:

  • Poultry Science
  • Genes
  • Communications Biology
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • PLoS Genetics

Örjan Carlborg has collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Yanjun Zan
  • Xiaoxiang Hu
  • Tilman Rönneburg
  • Christa F. Honaker
  • P.B. Siegel

Their recent publications illustrate a focus on genetic influences affecting growth traits in animals as well as environmental responses at the genetic level. Selected recent papers include:

  • Multiple ancestral haplotypes harboring regulatory mutations cumulatively contribute to a QTL affecting chicken growth traits, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Researching on the fine structure and admixture of the worldwide chicken population reveal connections between populations and important events in breeding history, 2021, Evolutionary Applications
  • Dynamic genetic architecture of yeast response to environmental perturbation shed light on origin of cryptic genetic variation, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • Mapping and Functional Dissection of the Rumpless Trait in Piao Chicken Identifies a Causal Loss of Function Mutation in the Novel Gene Rum, 2023, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Dissecting the Genetic Regulation of Yeast Growth Plasticity in Response to Environmental Changes, 2020, Genes

Best Publications

  • Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication

    Carl-Johan Rubin;Michael C. Zody;Michael C. Zody;Jonas Eriksson;Jennifer R. S. Meadows

  • Epistasis: too often neglected in complex trait studies?

    Örjan Carlborg;Chris S. Haley

  • The origin of the domestic pig: independent domestication and subsequent introgression.

    E Giuffra;J M Kijas;Amarger;Örjan Carlborg

  • Strong signatures of selection in the domestic pig genome

    Carl-Johan Rubin;Hendrik-Jan Megens;Alvaro Martinez Barrio;Khurram Maqbool

  • A paternally expressed QTL affecting skeletal and cardiac muscle mass in pigs maps to the IGF2 locus

    Jin-Tae Jeon;Örjan Carlborg;Anna Törnsten;Elisabetta Giuffra

  • Epistasis and the release of genetic variation during long-term selection.

    Orjan Carlborg;Lina Jacobsson;Per Ahgren;Paul Siegel

  • A global search reveals epistatic interaction between QTL for early growth in the chicken.

    Örjan Carlborg;Susanne Kerje;Karin Schütz;Lina Jacobsson

  • The twofold difference in adult size between the red junglefowl and White Leghorn chickens is largely explained by a limited number of QTLs.

    Susanne Kerje;Örjan Carlborg;Lina Jacobsson;Karin Schütz

  • The Use of a Genetic Algorithm for Simultaneous Mapping of Multiple Interacting Quantitative Trait Loci

    Örjan Carlborg;Leif Andersson;Brian Kinghorn

  • A Unified Model for Functional and Statistical Epistasis and Its Application in Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis

    José M. Álvarez-Castro;Örjan Carlborg

  • Evolutionary potential of hidden genetic variation

    Arnaud Le Rouzic;Arnaud Le Rouzic;Örjan Carlborg;Örjan Carlborg

  • Natural CMT2 Variation Is Associated With Genome-Wide Methylation Changes and Temperature Seasonality

    Xia Shen;Jennifer De Jonge;Simon K. G. Forsberg;Mats E. Pettersson

  • Genome-wide effects of long-term divergent selection.

    Anna M. Johansson;Mats E. Pettersson;Paul B. Siegel;Örjan Carlborg;Örjan Carlborg

  • Inheritance Beyond Plain Heritability: Variance-Controlling Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Xia Shen;Mats Pettersson;Lars Rönnegård;Lars Rönnegård;Örjan Carlborg;Örjan Carlborg

  • QTL analysis of a red junglefowl x White Leghorn intercross reveals trade-off in resource allocation between behavior and production traits.

    Karin Schütz;Susanne Kerje;Örjan Carlborg;Lina Jacobsson

  • Major growth QTLs in fowl are related to fearful behavior: possible genetic links between fear responses and production traits in a red junglefowl x white leghorn intercross.

    Karin E. Schütz;Susanne Kerje;Lina Jacobsson;Björn Forkman

  • Genetic Architecture of Tameness in a Rat Model of Animal Domestication

    Frank Wolfgang Albert;Örjan Carlborg;Irina Z. Plyusnina;Francois Besnier

  • Accounting for genetic interactions improves modeling of individual quantitative trait phenotypes in yeast

    Simon K G Forsberg;Joshua S Bloom;Meru J Sadhu;Leonid Kruglyak

  • Chicken genomics: feather-pecking and victim pigmentation.

    Linda Keeling;Leif Andersson;Leif Andersson;Karin E. Schütz;Karin E. Schütz;Susanne Kerje;Susanne Kerje

  • Statistical Epistasis Is a Generic Feature of Gene Regulatory Networks

    Arne B. Gjuvsland;Ben J. Hayes;Stig W. Omholt;Örjan Carlborg

Frequent Co-Authors

Leif Andersson
Leif Andersson Texas A&M University
Paul B. Siegel
Paul B. Siegel Virginia Tech
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh Uppsala University
Per Jensen
Per Jensen Linköping University
Leonid Kruglyak
Leonid Kruglyak University of California, Los Angeles
Dirk-Jan de Koning
Dirk-Jan de Koning Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Chris Haley
Chris Haley University of Edinburgh
Torsten Schöneberg
Torsten Schöneberg Leipzig University

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