Uses and implications of field disease data for livestock genomic and genetics studies

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Bishop, Stephen C ^a   Doeschl Wilson, Andrea B ^a   Woolliams, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal; Epidemiology; Field data; Genome wide association analysis; Heritability

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876018784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00114     Document Type: Article

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