Sequence-based Association Analysis Reveals an MGST1 eQTL with Pleiotropic Effects on Bovine Milk Composition

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Littlejohn, Mathew D ^a,b   Tiplady, Kathryn ^a   Fink, Tania A ^b   Lehnert, Klaus ^b   Lopdell, Thomas ^b   Johnson, Thomas ^a   Couldrey, Christine ^a   Keehan, Mike ^a   Sherlock, Richard G ^a   Harland, Chad ^a   Scott, Andrew ^a   Snell, Russell G ^b   Davis, Stephen R ^a   Spelman, Richard J ^a  

^a LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MICROSOMAL GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE-I;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BOVINE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MILK; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MILK; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84966312487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25376     Document Type: Article

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