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A genome wide association scan of bovine tuberculosis susceptibility in Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Finlay Emma K, Berry Donagh P, Wickham Brian, Gormley Eamonn P, Bradley Daniel G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Bovine tuberculosis is a significant veterinary and financial problem in many parts of the world. Although many factors influence infection and progression of the disease, there is a host genetic component and dissection of this may enlighten on the wider biology of host response to tuberculosis. However, a binary phenotype of presence/absence of infection presents a noisy signal for genomewide...
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