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A genome-wide association study of meat and carcass traits in Australian cattle.
Journal of animal science - 1 Aug 2011
Bolormaa S, Neto L R Porto, Zhang Y D, Bunch R J, Harrison B E, Goddard M E, Barendse W
Abstract excerpt
Chromosomal regions containing DNA variation affecting the traits intramuscular fat percentage (IMF), meat tenderness measured as peak force to shear the LM (LLPF), and rump fat measured at the sacro-iliac crest in the chiller (CHILLP8) were identified using a set of 53,798 SNP genotyped on 940 taurine and indicine cattle sampled from a large progeny test experiment. Of these SNP, 87, 64, and 63 were...
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