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Fine-mapping QTL for mastitis resistance on BTA9 in three Nordic red cattle breeds.
Animal genetics - 1 Aug 2008
Sahana G, Lund M S, Andersson-Eklund L, Hastings N, Fernandez A, Iso-Touru T, Thomsen B, Viitala S, Sørensen P, Williams J L, Vilkki J
Abstract excerpt
A QTL affecting clinical mastitis and/or somatic cell score (SCS) has been reported previously on chromosome 9 from studies in 16 families from the Swedish Red and White (SRB), Finnish Ayrshire (FA) and Danish Red (DR) breeds. In order to refine the QTL location, 67 markers were genotyped over the whole chromosome in the 16 original families and 18 additional half-sib families. This enabled linkage disequilibrium...
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