Genome-wide association study with imputed whole-genome sequence variants including large deletions for female fertility in 3 Nordic dairy cattle breeds

ABSTRACT: Fertility is an economically important trait in livestock. Poor fertility in dairy cattle can be due to loss-of-function variants affecting any essential gene that causes early embryonic mortality in homozygotes. To identify fertility-associated quantitative trait loci, we performed single...

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Main Authors: Md Mesbah-Uddin, Bernt Guldbrandtsen, Aurélien Capitan, Mogens Sandø Lund, Didier Boichard, Goutam Sahana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-02-01
Series:Journal of Dairy Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030221010560