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Predicting breed composition using breed frequencies of 50,000 markers from the US Meat Animal Research Center 2,000 Bull Project.
Journal of animal science - 1 Jun 2011
Kuehn L A, Keele J W, Bennett G L, McDaneld T G, Smith T P L, Snelling W M, Sonstegard T S, Thallman R M
Abstract excerpt
Knowledge of breed composition can be useful in multiple aspects of cattle production, and can be critical for analyzing the results of whole genome-wide association studies currently being conducted around the world. We examine the feasibility and accuracy of using genotype data from the most prevalent bovine genome-wide association studies platform, the Illumina BovineSNP50 array (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA),...
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