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Genetic diversity and population structure of American Red Angus cattle.
Journal of animal science - 1 Jan 2010
Márquez G C, Speidel S E, Enns R M, Garrick D J
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to characterize the population structure and genetic diversity of registered American Red Angus cattle. Inbreeding and average relationship coefficients, effective population size, effective number of founders, and effective number of herds supplying grandparents to the population were calculated from the recorded pedigree. Inbreeding in 1960 was 10.7% and decreased until 1974 at a...
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