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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-02-01
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Series: | Journal of Dairy Science |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030221010560 |