Detection of selective sweeps in cattle using genome-wide SNP data

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ramey, Holly R ^a   Decker, Jared E ^a   McKay, Stephanie D ^a,b   Rolf, Megan M ^a,c   Schnabel, Robert D ^a   Taylor, Jeremy F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Reduced heterozygosity; Selective sweep; Signatures of selection; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY HEIGHT; CATTLE; CATTLE FARMING; COAT COLOR; EAR MORPHOLOGY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SELECTIVE SWEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 84878644507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-382     Document Type: Article

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