Foreword  Speaker Biographies  Officers and Directors for 2003-2004  Members of NSIF  Registrants for 2003  2003 Annual Financial Report  2003 Annual Meeting Minutes  2003 Board Meeting  2003 Sponsors Papers Presented PRINCIPLES OF QTL MAPPING A GENOME SCAN TO DETECT QTL AFFECTING GROWTH, COMPOSITION, AND MEAT QUALITY TRAIT IN A BERKSHIRE X YORKSHIRE CROSS MAPPING OF QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI FOR WEIGHT, CARCASS AND MEAT QUALITY TRAITS ON PIG CHROMOSOME JOINT ANALYSIS OF THE BERKSHIRE X YORKSHIRE AND BERKSHIRE X DUROC CROSSES FOR QTL DETECTION DETECTION OF IMPRINTED QTL IN THE BERKSHIRE X YORKSHIRE CROSS IDENTIFICATION OF GENES FOR CARCASS MERIT AND MEAT QUALITY IN THE PIG MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION AN OVERVIEW OF QTL RESEARCH FOR GROWTH AND BODY COMPOSITION IN A MEISHAN CROSS POPULATION AT THE MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER DEVELOPMENT OF A DUROC X PIETRAIN SWINE RESOURCE POPULATION QTL FOR REPRODUCTION IN THE NEBRASKA SELECTION LINES 1GF2 : THE USE OF A PATERNALLY IMPRINTED QTL INFLUENCING MUSCLE MASS IN MARKER ASSISTED SELECTION IN COMMERCIAL PIG POPULATIONS PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF DNA MARKERS FOR GENETIC IMPROVEMENT MARKERS ASSISTED SELECTION FOR THE CANADIAN SWINE INDUSTRY USE OF MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION IN BABCOCK GENETICS PROGRAMS INDUSTRY USE OF MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION NATIONAL SWINE REGISTRY - MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE GENETICS OF PORK QUALITY GENETIC IMPROVEMENT OF IMMUNE RESPONSE AND DISEASE RESISTANCE: PAST EXPERIENCE AND A VISION FOR THE FUTURE Abstracts Presented Are Ridgling and Scrotal Rupture Caused by Abnormal Sizes of Inguinal Canal? Awards 2003 Lauren L. Christian Memorial Graduate Student Award 2003 Charles Stanislaw Memorial Distinguished Service Award 2003 Outgoing President Recognition Award High Performance Swine Team <-- Return to Index