Estimation of genetic parameters for the prevalence of osseous fragments in limb joints of Hanoverian Warmblood horses

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 271-280

  Stock, K F ^a   Hamann, H ^a   Distl, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENETICS; HINDLIMB; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; JOINT DISEASES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; TARSUS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 22844442574     PISSN: 09312668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2005.00527.x     Document Type: Article

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