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A comprehensive search for quantitative trait loci affecting growth and carcass composition of cattle segregating alternative forms of the myostatin gene.
Journal of animal science - 1 Apr 2001
Casas E, Stone R T, Keele J W, Shackelford S D, Kappes S M, Koohmaraie M
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The objective of this study was to identify quantitative trait loci for economically important traits in two families segregating an inactive copy of the myostatin gene. Two half-sib families were developed from a Belgian Blue x MARC III (n = 246) and a Piedmontese x Angus (n = 209) sire. Traits...
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