Low-density genotype panel for both parentage verification and discovery in a multi-breed sheep population

The generally low usage of artificial insemination and single-sire mating in sheep, compounded by mob lambing (and lambing outdoors), implies that parentage assignment in sheep is challenging. The objective here was to develop a low-density panel of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for accurat...

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Main Authors: Berry D.P., McHugh N., Wall E., McDermott K., O’Brien A.C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Compuscript Ltd 2019-03-01
Series:Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijafr.2019.58.issue-1/ijafr-2019-0001/ijafr-2019-0001.xml?format=INT