Identification and dissection of four major QTL affecting milk fat content in the German Holstein-Friesian population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Xiaolong ^a   Wurmser, Christine ^a   Pausch, Hubert ^a   Jung, Simone ^a   Reinhardt, Friedrich ^b   Tetens, Jens ^c   Thaller, Georg ^c   Fries, Ruedi ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Vereinigte Informationssysteme Tierhaltung wV VIT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILK FAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BREEDING; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DGAT1 GENE; EPS8 GENE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; GHR GENE; GPAT4 GENE; HERITABILITY; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BREEDING; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FATS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MILK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BOS; FRIESIA; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863811524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040711     Document Type: Article

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