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Signatures of contemporary selection in the Israeli Holstein dairy cattle.
Animal genetics - 1 Jul 2012
Glick G, Shirak A, Uliel S, Zeron Y, Ezra E, Seroussi E, Ron M, Weller J I
Abstract excerpt
Strong selection in the Israeli Holstein dairy cattle population over the last three decades should have left clear signatures of selection. Two experimental approaches were applied to detect evidence of contemporary selection based on the 54K BeadChip genotypes of ~1000 Israeli Holstein bulls: (i) the long-range haplotype test, which searches for structural evidence resulting from selective sweep, and (ii)...
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