Haplotypes and effects on growth traits of bovine Wnt7a gene in Chinese Qinchuan cattle

Gene

Volumn 524, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 241-245

  Xue, Jing ^a   Sun, Yujia ^a   Guo, Wenjiao ^a   Yang, Ziqi ^a   Tian, Huibin ^a   Zhang, Chunlei ^b   Lei, Chuzhao ^a   Lan, Xianyong ^a   Chen, Hong ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Association; Growth traits; Haplotype; Qinchuan cattle; Wnt7a gene

Indexed keywords

WNT7A PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CHINESE; COW; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAPLOTYPE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THORAX;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOCI; GENOMIC STRUCTURAL VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; INTRONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; WNT PROTEINS;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 84878624860     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.04.013     Document Type: Article

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