A genome-wide scan for signatures of differential artificial selection in ten cattle breeds

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rothammer, Sophie ^a   Seichter, Doris ^b   Förster, Martin ^a   Medugorac, Ivica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Tierzuchtforschung eV München ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Artificial selection; Cattle; Selection signature; XP EHH

Indexed keywords

ABCG2 GENE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; CASEIN CLUSTER GENE; CATTLE BREED; CROSS POPULATION EXTENDED HAPLOTYPE HOMOZYGOSITY; DAIRY CATTLE; DGAT1 GENE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GH1 GENE; GHR GENE; HOLSTEIN CATTLE; HOMOZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TG GENE;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; GENOME; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84890454366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-908     Document Type: Article

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