Validation of associations for female fertility traits in Nordic Holstein, Nordic Red and Jersey dairy cattle

BMC Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Höglund, Johanna K ^a,b,c   Sahana, Goutam ^a   Guldbrandtsen, Bernt ^a   Lund, Mogens S ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Viking Genetics International Denmark   (Denmark)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Female fertility; GWAS; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATTLE BREED; CHROMOSOME; DAIRY CATTLE; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SIRE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEMEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84892540530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-15-8     Document Type: Article

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