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Quantitative trait loci affecting milk yield and protein percentage in a three-country Brown Swiss population.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Feb 2008
Bagnato A, Schiavini F, Rossoni A, Maltecca C, Dolezal M, Medugorac I, Sölkner J, Russo V, Fontanesi L, Friedmann A, Soller M, Lipkin E
Abstract excerpt
Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping projects have been implemented mainly in the Holstein dairy cattle breed for several traits. The aim of this study is to map QTL for milk yield (MY) and milk protein percent (PP) in the Brown Swiss cattle populations of Austria, Germany, and Italy, considered in this study as a single population. A selective DNA pooling approach using milk samples was applied to map QTL in 10...
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