Combining evidence of selection with association analysis increases power to detect regions influencing complex traits in dairy cattle

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Schwarzenbacher, Hermann ^a,c   Dolezal, Marlies ^b   Flisikowski, Krzysztof ^a   Seefried, Franz ^a   Wurmser, Christine ^a   Schlötterer, Christian ^b   Fries, Ruedi ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c ZucbtData EDV Dienstleistungen GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cattle; Complex trait; Selection signature; Whole genome association

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAIRY CATTLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; MILK PRODUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; SELECTIVE SWEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

BOS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84856265264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-48     Document Type: Article

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