Publications (dd. 20/10/2009)
2009
Rustin M., Janssens S., Buys N., Gengler N., 2009, Multi-trait Animal Model Estimation of Genetic Parameters for Linear Type and Gait Traits in the Belgian Warmblood Horse, Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Vol 126, 378-386
Stinckens A., Luyten T., Van den Maagdenberg K., Janssens S., De Smet S., Georges M. and Buys N., 2009, Interactions between genes involved in growth and muscularity in pigs: Insulin-like growth factor-2, Myostatin, Ryanodine receptor 1 and Melanocortin-4 receptor, Domestic Animal Endocrinology
Ruhlmann C., Janssens S., Philipsson J., Thorén-Hellsten E., Crolly H., Quinn K., Manfredi E., Ricard A., 2009, Genetic correlations between horse show jumping competition traits in five European countries, Livestock science, 122:234-240
Ntawubizi M, Raes K, Buys N, De Smet S., 2009, Effect of sire and sex on the intramuscular fatty acid profile and indices for enzyme activities in pigs, Livestock science, 122: 264-270
Cheng J., Janssens S. and Buys N., 2009, Full sib pens of pigs are not suitable to identify variance component of associative effect: a simulation study using Gibbs Sampling, BMC Genetics 2009, 10:9
Ruhlmann C., Bruns E. , Fraehr E., Koenen E .-P.C., Philipsson J., Janssens S., Quinn K., Thorén Hellsten E., Ricard A., 2009, Genetic connectedness between seven European countries for performance in horse jumping competitions of warmblood riding horses, Livestock science, 120:75-86
2008
Cheng J., Janssens, S., Buys N., 2008, Estimation of genetic competitive effects in pigs: a simulation study, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on the assessment of Animal welfare at Farm and Group level, Ghent 10-13 septembre
Gardan D, Gondret F, Van den Maagdenberg K, Buys N, De Smet S, Louveau I., 2008. Lipid metabolism and cellular features of skeletal muscle and subcutaneous adipose tissue in pigs differing in IGF-II genotype. Domestic Animal Endocrinology 34, 45-53
Cheng J., Janssens, S., Buys N., 2008, Variance components for genetic associative effects in pigs: a simulation study, Proceedings of the 59th Annual meeting of the EAAP, Vilnius, Lithuania, p. 124
Rustin M., Janssens, S., Buys N., Gengler N., 2008, Genetic parameters for linear type traits in the Belgian Warmblood horse, Proceedings of the 59th Annual meeting of the EAAP, Vilnius, Lithuania, p. 284
Buys N.,2008 ,Selection schemes in the genomic era, Pig Genome II, The Second European Conference on Pig Genomics,June 4-5,Ljubljana, Slovenia
Stinckens A., Luyten T., Bijttebier J. , Van den Maagdenberg K., Dieltiens D., Janssens S., De Smet S., Georges M. and Buys N., 2008, Characterisation of the complete porcine MSTN gene and expression levels in pig breeds differing in muscularity. Animal Genetics 39:586-596
Van den Maagdenberg K., Stinckens A., Lefaucheur L., Buys N. and De Smet S., 2008, The biochemical and histochemical muscle fibre characteristics in pigs as influenced by the insulin-like growth factor-II and RYR1 genotype. Meat science
Van den Maagdenberg K., Stinckens A., Claeys E., Buys N. and De Smet S., 2008, Effect of the insulin-like growth factor-II and RYR1 genotype in pigs on carcass and meat quality traits. Meat science
2007
Stinckens A., Van den Maagdenberg K., Luyten T., Georges M., De Smet S. and Buys N., 2007, The RYR1 g.1843C>T mutation is associated with the effect of the IGF2 intron3-g.3072G>A mutation on muscle hypertrophy. Animal Genetics. 38(1):67-71
Van den Maagdenberg K., Claeys E., Stinckens A., Buys N., and De Smet S., 2007, Effect of age, muscle type, and insulin-like growth factor-II genotype on muscle proteolytic and lipolytic enzyme activities in boars, J Anim Sci 85:952-960
Van den Maagdenberg K., Stinckens A.,Claeys E., Seynaeve M., Clinquart A., Georges P., Buys N. and S. De Smet , 2007, The Asp298Asn missense mutation in the porcine melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) gene can be used to affect growth and carcass traits without an effect on meat quality, Animal, Volume 1, Issue 08, September 2007, 1089-1098
Van den Maagdenberg K, Claeys E, Stinckens A, Buys N, De Smet S, 2007. The influence of the IGF-II genotype on muscle fibre type composition, cross sectional area and number of nuclei. Archives of animal breeding 50, 60-61
Janssens S, Buys N, Vandepitte W, 2007, Sport status and the genetic evaluation for show jumping in Belgian sport horses, 58th Annual Meeting of the European Association for animal production, 26-29 August Dublin, Ireland
Ntawubizi M, Raes K, Buys N, De Smet S., 2007, Relationships between indices for desaturase and elongase activity involved in the intramuscular long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism in pigs. Commun Agric Appl Biol Sci. 72(1):29-33
2006
Stinckens A., Van den Maagdenberg K., Luyten T., Georges M., De Smet S., Buys N., 2006, RyR1 and the calpain/calpastatin system are involved in the effect of the IGF2-intron3-G3072A mutation on muscle hypertrophy, Animal Genetics 38, 67-71
Gardan D., Gondret F., Van den Maagdenberg K, Buys N., De Smet S., Louveau I., 2006, Lipid metabolism and cellular features of skeletal muscle and subcutaneous adipose tissue in pigs differing in IGF-II genotype, Domestic Animal Endocrinology (in press)
Harmegnies N., Davin N., De Smet S., Buys N., Georges M., Coppieters W., 2006, Results of a whole genome QTL scan for growth, carcass composition and meat quality in a porcine four-way cross, Animal Genetics, in press
Harmegnies N., Farnir F., Davin F., Buys N., Georges M., Coppieters W., 2006, Measuring the extent of linkage disequilibrium in commercial pig populations. Animal Genetics 37, 225-231
Janssens S., Vandepitte W., 2006, Genetic relationship between litter size and body dimensions in Belgian Suffolk and Texel sheep, Proceedings of the 8th WCGALP, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Buys N, Van den Abeele G, Stinckens A, Deley J, Georges M, 2006. Effect of the IGF2-intron3-G3072A mutation on prolificacy in sows. Proceedings of the 8th World Conference of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, August 13-18, 2006, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Liu Y, Sullivan B, Chen S, Buys N, Mathur PK, 2006. Effects of IGF2 gene on carcass and meat quality traits in Canadian swine. Proceedings of the 8th World Conference of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, August 13-18, 2006, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Stinckens A, Bijttebier J, Luyten T, Georges M, Buys N, 2006, Does an A to G transition in the promoter of Myostatin have an influence on the expression of the gene? Proceedings of the 57th EAAP Annual Meeting, September 17-20, 2006, Antalya, Turkey
Van den Maagdenberg K, Claeys E, Stinckens A, Buys N, De Smet S, 2006, Effect of the IGF-II and stress genotype on carcass quality in pigs Proceedings of the 57th EAAP Annual Meeting, September 17-20, 2006, Antalya, Turkey
Van den Maagdenberg K, Claeys E, Stinckens A, Buys N, De Smet S, 2006, Effect of IGF-II and halothane genotype on cured cooked loin production. Book of abstracts of the 52th international Congres of Meat Science and Technology, 2006, 71-72
2005
Janssens, S., Depuydt J., Serlet S., Vandepitte W., 2005, Genetic variability in pigs assessed by pedigree analysis: the case of Belgian Landrace and Pietrain in Flanders, Proceedings of the 56th Annual meeting of the EAAP, June 5-8 2005, Uppsala, Sweden, p. 98
Janssens S., Vandepitte W., 2005, Verslag: Ondersteuning van de Vlaamse fokkerij in het domein van de kwantitatieve genetica en de selectie, CHGS200501, pp.28
Stinckens A, Bijttebier J, Luyten T, Van den Maagdenberg K, Harmegnies N, De Smet S, Georges M, Buys N, 2005, Detection of polymorphisms in the myostatin gene in Belgian Pietrain pigs, Communications in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences 70, 37-41
Stinckens A, Bijttebier J, Luyten T, Van den Maagdenberg K, Harmegnies N, De Smet S, Georges M, Buys N., 2005, The sequence of Myostatin in double-muscled pigs. Proceedings of the 56th EAAP Annual Meeting, June 5-8 2005, Uppsala Sweden, – Session P4.13
Decuypere E, Hassanzadeh M, Buys N, Buyse J 2005. Further insights into the susceptibility of broilers to ascites. Veterinary Journal 169, 319-320
2004
Braunschweig M.H., Van Laere A.S., Buys N., Andersson L., Andersson G., 2004, IGF2 antisense transcript expression in porcine postnatal muscle is affected by a quantitative trait nucleotide in intron 3, Genomics 84, 1021-1029
Van den Maagdenberg K., Claeys E., Stinckens A., Buys N. and De Smet S. 2004. Differences in proteolytic enzyme activities during growth of the pig with different IGF-II genotypes. Communications in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences 96, 297-300
2003
Nezer C., Collette C., Moreau L., Brouwers B., Kim J.J., Giuffra E., Buys N., Andersson L., Georges M., 2003, Haplotype sharing refines the location of an imprinted quantitative trait locus with major effect on muscle mass to a 250kb chromosome segment containing the porcine IGF2 gene, Genetics. 165, 277-285
Scheele CW, van Der Klis JD, Kwakernaak C, Buys N, Decuypere E, 2003. Haematological characteristics predicting susceptibility for ascites. 1. High carbon dioxide tensions in juvenile chickens. British Poultry Science 44, 476-483
Scheele CW, van Der Klis JD, Kwakernaak C, Buys N, Decuypere E., 2003. Haematological characteristics predicting susceptibility for ascites. 2. High haematocrit values in juvenile chickens. British Poultry Science 44, 484-489
Van Laere A.S., Nguyen M., Braunschweig M., Nezer C., Collette C., Moreau L., Archibald A.L., Haley C.S., Buys N., Tally M., Andersson G., Georges M., Andersson L., 2003, A regulatory mutation in IGF2 causes a major QTL effect on muscle growth in the pig, Nature. 425, 832-836
