Candidate mutations used to aid the prediction of genetic merit for female reproductive traits in tropical beef cattle

ABSTRACT In this study, we aimed to provide a wet laboratory validation for a set of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), which had been identified as candidate functional variants in silico. Genotyping for candidate SNP was performed in Brahman and Tropical Composite cattle. After quality control...

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Main Authors: Marina Rufino Salinas Fortes, Charmaine Enculescu, Laercio R. Porto Neto, Sigrid A. Lehnert, Russell McCulloch, Ben Hayes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia 2018-11-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982018000100412&lng=en&tlng=en