Identification of a 3.7-Mb region for a marbling QTL on bovine chromosome 4 by identical-by-descent and association analysis

Animal Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 945-951

  Yokouchi, K ^a   Mizoguchi, Y ^a,b   Watanabe, T ^a   Iwamoto, E ^c   Sugimoto, Y ^a   Takasuga, A ^a  

^a Shirakawa Institute of Animal Genetics   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hyogo Agricultural Institute for Agriculture   (Japan)

Author keywords

Identical by descent; Intramuscular fat deposition; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MEAT; METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; CATTLE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; MEAT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 70449441062     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2009.01956.x     Document Type: Article

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