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Refinement of two female fertility QTL using alternative phenotypes in French Holstein dairy cattle.
Animal genetics - 1 Feb 2007
Guillaume F, Gautier M, Ben Jemaa S, Fritz S, Eggen A, Boichard D, Druet T
Abstract excerpt
Two quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting female fertility were mapped in French dairy cattle. Phenotypes were non-return rates at 28, 56, 90 and 282 days after insemination. On chromosome 3, a QTL was significant at 1% for non-return rate at 90 days, suggesting that it affects early fertility events. An analysis of SLC35A3, which causes complex vertebral malformation, excluded this gene from the QTL interval....
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