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Predicting energy balance for dairy cows using high-density single nucleotide polymorphism information.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jun 2010
Verbyla K L, Calus M P L, Mulder H A, de Haas Y, Veerkamp R F
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to investigate the genetic basis of energy balance (EB) and the potential use of genomic selection to enable EB to be incorporated into selection programs. Energy balance provides an essential link between production and nonproduction traits because both depend on a common source of energy. A small number (527) of Dutch Holstein-Friesian heifers with phenotypes for EB were...
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