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Revealing fine scale subpopulation structure in the Vietnamese H'Mong cattle breed for conservation purposes.
BMC genetics - 7 Jun 2010
Berthouly C, Maillard J C, Pham Doan L, Nhu Van T, Bed'Hom B, Leroy G, Hoang Thanh H, Laloë D, Bruneau N, Vu Chi C, Nguyen Dang V, Verrier E, Rognon X
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BACKGROUND: During the last decades, there has been an acceleration of the loss of domestic animal biodiversity. For conservation purposes, the genetic diversity of the H'Mong cattle, an indigenous local breed was studied. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of the SRY gene and mtDNA D-Loop sequence were analysed to clarify the origin of the breed. The genetic diversity was assessed through genetic data with...
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