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Search for pleiotropic QTL on chromosome BTA6 affecting yield traits of milk production.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Mar 2003
Freyer G, Sørensen P, Kühn C, Weikard R, Hoeschele I
Abstract excerpt
The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether previous findings of similar quantitative trait loci (QTL) positions for correlated yield traits are due to a pleiotropic QTL. We applied a multitrait variance component based QTL mapping method to a dataset involving five granddaughter families from the German Holstein dairy cattle population. The marker map contained 16 microsatellite markers, distributed...
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