Distortion of Mendelian segregation across the Angus cattle genome uncovering regions affecting reproduction

Abstract Nowadays, the availability of genotyped trios (sire-dam-offspring) in the livestock industry enables the implementation of the transmission ratio distortion (TRD) approach to discover deleterious alleles in the genome. Various biological mechanisms at different stages of the reproductive cy...

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Main Authors: S. Id-Lahoucine, J. Casellas, D. Lu, M. Sargolzaei, S. Miller, A. Cánovas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37710-z