Background Ascites syndrome is the most severe manifestation of pulmonary hypertension
in fast-growing broilers. The disease can be attributed to increased body weights of birds …

Background Ascites syndrome is a hypertensive, multifactorial, multigene trait affecting meat-
type chickens imposing significant economic losses on the broiler industry. A region …

Ascites is a multi-faceted disease commonly observed in fast growing broilers, which is
initiated when the body is insufficiently oxygenated. A series of events follow, including an …

Rapid growth in broilers is associated with susceptibility to metabolic disorders such as
pulmonary hypertension syndrome (ascites) and sudden death. This study describes a …

Background The goal of this study was to evaluate marker-assisted selection (MAS) in
broiler chickens using previously mapped gene regions associated with ascites syndrome …

In recent years, intensive selection has resulted in the development of metabolic diseases,
including ascites, in chickens as a consequence of their genetic potential to grow rapidly …

Ascites syndrome (AS) is a metabolic disorder that mainly occurs at later ages of meat-type
chickens. Despite many research, there is no consensus about the origin of this syndrome …

Previously, we reported a genome wide association study (GWAS) that had shown
association of a region between 11.8 and 13.6 Mbp on chromosome 9 with ascites …

Pulmonary hypertension (PH), remains a challenging disease with a large impact on both
humans and meat-type chickens. PH is characterized by the onset of idiopathic pulmonary …

The importance of ascites in the poultry industry warrants a comprehensive systematic
review and in-silico modelling to explain responses seen in previous studies in this field. By …