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Association of BoLA-DRB3 alleles with mastitis resistance and susceptibility in Japanese Holstein cows.
Animal science journal = Nihon chikusan Gakkaiho - 1 May 2012
Yoshida Tatsuyuki, Furuta Hiroki, Kondo Yasuko, Mukoyama Harutaka
Abstract excerpt
In this study, 714 cows from 26 dairy herds were reclassified as healthy or mastitic cows on the basis of long-term somatic cell count (SCC) in milk. Cows with more than three consecutive lactation records of SCC from the first or second to fifth lactation, were selected, and their BoLA-DRB3 (DRB3) alleles were identified using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method....
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