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Compilation of a panel of informative single nucleotide polymorphisms for bovine identification in the Northern Irish cattle population.
BMC genetics - 25 Jan 2010
Allen Adrian R, Taylor Malcolm, McKeown Brian, Curry April I, Lavery John F, Mitchell Andy, Hartshorne David, Fries Rüdi, Skuce Robin A
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BACKGROUND: Animal identification is pivotal in governmental agricultural policy, enabling the management of subsidy payments, movement of livestock, test scheduling and control of disease. Advances in bovine genomics have made it possible to utilise inherent genetic variability to uniquely identify individual animals by DNA profiling, much as has been achieved with humans over the past 20 years. A DNA profiling...
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