Leveraging genetically simple traits to identify small-effect variants for complex phenotypes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kemper, K E ^a   Littlejohn, M D ^b,c   Lopdell, T ^b,c   Hayes, B J ^d   Bennett, L E ^e   Williams, R P ^e   Xu, X Q ^e   Visscher, P M ^f   Carrick, M J ^g   Goddard, M E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g Berghan Carrick Consulting   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complex traits; Gene expression; Pleiotropy; QTL mapping

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; CASEIN; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE 1; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 3; DAIRY CATTLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HOLSTEIN CATTLE; INTRON; MILK PRODUCTION; MILK YIELD; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEIOTROPY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; BOVINE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC VARIATION; MILK; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; MILK; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84994021780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3175-3     Document Type: Article

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