Association weight matrix for the genetic dissection of puberty in beef cattle

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 13642-13647

  Fortes, Marina R S ^a,b,c   Reverter, Antonio ^a,b   Zhang, Yuandan ^a,d   Collis, Eliza ^a,b   Nagaraj, Shivashankar H ^b   Jonsson, Nick N ^a,c,e   Prayaga, Kishore C ^a,b,f   Barris, Wes ^a,b   Hawken, Rachel J ^a,b  

^a Cooperative Research Centre for Beef Genetic Technologies ^*  (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f Pfizer Animal Genetics   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bovine; Complex traits; Fertility; Reproduction; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RELATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BINDING SITE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PUBERTY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AGING; ANIMAL; CATTLE; GENETICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BOS; BOVINAE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CATTLE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77956366102     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002044107     Document Type: Article

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