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Evaluation of association between polymorphism within the thyroglobulin gene and milk production traits in dairy cattle.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Feb 2007
Khatib H, Zaitoun I, Chang Y M, Maltecca C, Boettcher P
Abstract excerpt
In dairy cattle, many studies have reported quantitative trait loci (QTL) on the centromeric end of chromosome 14 that affect milk production traits. One of the candidate genes in this QTL region - thyroglobulin (TG) - was previously found to be significantly associated with marbling in beef cattle. Thus, based on QTL studies in dairy cattle and because of possible effects of this gene on fat metabolism, we...
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