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Fine mapping of quantitative trait loci affecting female fertility in dairy cattle on BTA03 using a dense single-nucleotide polymorphism map.
Genetics - 1 Apr 2008
Druet Tom, Fritz Sébastien, Boussaha Mekki, Ben-Jemaa Slim, Guillaume François, Derbala David, Zelenika Diana, Lechner Doris, Charon Céline, Boichard Didier, Gut Ivo G, Eggen André, Gautier Mathieu
Abstract excerpt
Fertility quantitative trait loci (QTL) are of high interest in dairy cattle since insemination failure has dramatically increased in some breeds such as Holstein. High-throughput SNP analysis and SNP microarrays give the opportunity to genotype many animals for hundreds SNPs per chromosome. In this study, due to these techniques a dense SNP marker map was used to fine map a QTL underlying nonreturn rate measured...
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