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A genome-wide association study of direct gestation length in US Holstein and Italian Brown populations.
Animal genetics - 1 Dec 2011
Maltecca C, Gray K A, Weigel K A, Cassady J P, Ashwell M
Abstract excerpt
Direct gestation length influences economically important traits in dairy cattle that are related to birth and peri-natal survival of the calf. The objective of this study was to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are significantly associated with direct gestation length through a genome-wide association study. Data used in the analysis included 7,308,194 cow gestation lengths from daughters of...
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