Genome-wide association analysis of thirty one production, health, reproduction and body conformation traits in contemporary U.S. Holstein cows

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cole, John B ^a   Wiggans, George R ^a   Ma, Li ^b   Sonstegard, Tad S ^a   Lawlor Jr, Thomas J ^c   Crooker, Brian A ^b   Van Tassell, Curtis P ^a   Yang, Jing ^b   Wang, Shengwen ^b   Matukumalli, Lakshmi K ^a   Da, Yang ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Holstein Association USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BODY BUILD; BODY SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DNA CONFORMATION; ENERGY YIELD; FAT YIELD; FOOT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; LEG; LIPID STORAGE; MILK YIELD; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; STILLBIRTH; UDDER; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BODY CONSTITUTION; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GENETICS; MILK; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; MILK; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 81155157965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-408     Document Type: Article

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