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Evidence for parent-of-origin effects on genetic variability of beef traits.
Journal of animal science - 1 Feb 2010
Neugebauer N, Räder I, Schild H J, Zimmer D, Reinsch N
Abstract excerpt
Imprinted genes are involved in many aspects of development in mammals, plants, and perhaps birds and may play a role in growth and carcass composition of slaughter animals. In the presence of genomic imprinting the expression and, consequently, the effect on the phenotype of maternal and paternal alleles are different. For genetic evaluation genomic imprinting can be accounted for by incorporating 2 additive...
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