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Invited review: milk protein polymorphisms in cattle: effect on animal breeding and human nutrition.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Nov 2009
Caroli A M, Chessa S, Erhardt G J
Abstract excerpt
The 6 main milk proteins in cattle are encoded by highly polymorphic genes characterized by several nonsynonymous and synonymous mutations, with up to 47 protein variants identified. Such an extensive variation was used for linkage analysis with the description of the casein cluster more than 30 yr ago and has been applied to animal breeding for several years. Casein haplotype effects on productive traits have...
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