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Fine-mapping milk production quantitative trait loci on BTA6: analysis of the bovine osteopontin gene.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 May 2005
Schnabel Robert D, Kim Jong-Joo, Ashwell Melissa S, Sonstegard Tad S, Van Tassell Curtis P, Connor Erin E, Taylor Jeremy F
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Bovine chromosome six (BTA6) harbors up to six quantitative trait loci (QTL) influencing the milk production of dairy cattle. In stark contrast to human, there is long-range linkage disequilibrium in dairy cattle, which has previously made it difficult to identify the mutations underlying these QTL. Using 38 microsatellite markers in a pedigree of 3,147 Holstein bulls, we fine mapped regions of BTA6 that had...
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