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Identification of genetic markers for fat deposition and meat tenderness on bovine chromosome 5: development of a low-density single nucleotide polymorphism map.
Journal of animal science - 1 Oct 2005
Stone R T, Casas E, Smith T P L, Keele J W, Harhay G, Bennett G L, Koohmaraie M, Wheeler T L, Shackelford S D, Snelling W M
Abstract excerpt
As genetic markers, SNP are well suited for the development of genetic tests for production traits in livestock. They are stable through many generations and can provide direct assessment of individual animal's genetic merit if they are in linkage disequilibrium and phase with functional genetic variation. Bovine chromosome 5 has been shown to harbor genetic variation affecting production traits in multiple...
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