Kominakis Antonios

Professor

Animal Breeding

Biography

  • BSc, Dept. of Animal Science, Agricultural University of Athens
  • PhD, Animal Breeding, University of Hohenheim, Germany

Research Focus

  • Estimation of genetic parameters in livestock populations.
  • Genetic association studies in human and animal populations.
  • Application of statistical methods in data analysis

Courses Taught

 

Recent Publications

Kominakis A., Saridaki A, Antonakos G, 2019. Novel candidate genes for somatic cell count in Frizarta dairy sheep. International Journal of Genetics and Genomics. Vol. 7, No. 4, 2019, pp. 103-109. doi: 10.11648/j.ijgg.2019070.

Tarsani E, Theodorou G, Palamidi I, Kominakis, A. 2020. Identification of candidate genes for body weight in broilers using extreme phenotype GWAS. Int. Journ. Gen. Genomics. Vol. 8, No. 1, 2020, pp. 29-40. doi: 10.11648/j.ijgg.20200801.14.

Tarsani, E, Kranis A, Maniatis, G, Avendano S, Hager-Theodorides A, Kominakis, A. 2020. Deciphering the mode of action and position of genetic variants impacting on egg number in broiler breeders. BMC Genomics (accepted).

Kominakis A, Tarsani E, Hager A, Hadjigeorgiou I, 2020. Exploiting most informative markers to predict group membership of North Aegean sheep, EAAP 2020 Porto. Presentation (accepted).

Kominakis A, Hager A, Tarsani E, Hadjigeorgiou I, 2020. A variant in intron 11 of RXFP2 gene is associated with the polled phenotype in North Aegean sheep populations. EAAP 2020. Porto. Presentation (accepted).

Contact

Dimakopoulos Building, 2nd Floor

Laboratory of Animal Breeding & Husbandry

+30 210 529 4403

acom@aua.gr