GWA Analysis for Milk Production Traits in Dairy Sheep and Genetic Support for a QTN Influencing Milk Protein Percentage in the LALBA Gene

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  García Gámez, Elsa ^a   Gutiérrez Gil, Beatriz ^a   Sahana, Goutam ^b   Sánchez, Juan Pablo ^c   Bayón, Yolanda ^a   Arranz, Juan José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; MILK PROTEIN; VALINE;

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN GENE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EWE; FAT CONTENT; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HETEROZYGOSITY; INTRON; MILK PRODUCTION; MILK YIELD; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN CONTENT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; LACTALBUMIN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LIPIDS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

EID: 84867628204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047782     Document Type: Article

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