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The genome response to artificial selection: a case study in dairy cattle.
PloS one - 12 Aug 2009
Flori Laurence, Fritz Sébastien, Jaffrézic Florence, Boussaha Mekki, Gut Ivo, Heath Simon, Foulley Jean-Louis, Gautier Mathieu
Abstract excerpt
Dairy cattle breeds have been subjected over the last fifty years to intense artificial selection towards improvement of milk production traits. In this study, we performed a whole genome scan for differentiation using 42,486 SNPs in the three major French dairy cattle breeds (Holstein, Normande and Montbéliarde) to identify the main physiological pathways and regions which were affected by this selection. After...
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