Genome-wide association for milk production and female fertility traits in Canadian dairy Holstein cattle

BMC Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Nayeri, Shadi ^a   Sargolzaei, Mehdi ^b,c   Abo Ismail, Mohammed K ^b,d   May, Natalie ^a   Miller, Stephen P ^b,e   Schenkel, Flavio ^b   Moore, Stephen S ^a,f   Stothard, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c The Semex Alliance   (Canada)

^d DAMANHOUR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Female fertility and milk production; Functional analysis; Genome wide association analysis; Holstein cattle

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 21; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPSF1 GENE; DGAT1 GENE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME REGULATION; FAM181A GENE; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOLSTEIN CATTLE; HORMONE RESPONSE; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CYTOLOGY; DAIRYING; FERTILITY; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; MILK; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MILK; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84975500858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12863-016-0386-1     Document Type: Article

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