Genome scan for parent-of-origin QTL effects on bovine growth and carcass traits

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue JULY, 2011, Pages

  Imumorin, Ikhide G ^a,b   Kim, Eun Hee ^c   Lee, Yun Mi ^c   De Koning, Dirk Jan ^d,e   van Arendonk, Johan A ^d   De Donato, Marcos ^a,b,f   Taylor, Jeremy F ^b,g   Kim, Jong Joo ^b,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Venezuela)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; BTA2; Carcass traits; Comparative genomics; Growth traits; Imprinting; Parent of origin; QTL

Indexed keywords

BOS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84858755147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00044     Document Type: Article

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