Novel harmful recessive haplotypes identified for fertility traits in Nordic Holstein cattle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Sahana, Goutam ^a   Nielsen, Ulrik Sander ^b   Aamand, Gert Pedersen ^c   Lund, Mogens Sandø ^a   Guldbrandtsen, Bernt ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Knowledge Center for Agriculture   (Denmark)

^c Nordic Cattle Genetic Evaluation   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING METHOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOLSTEIN CATTLE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84893392477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082909     Document Type: Article

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