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Confirmation and discovery of maternal grandsires and great-grandsires in dairy cattle.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Mar 2013
VanRaden P M, Cooper T A, Wiggans G R, O'Connell J R, Bacheller L R
Abstract excerpt
Selection, mating, and improvement of dairy animals have required accurate pedigrees. Genomic tools allow paternal ancestors to be easily confirmed or discovered because most sires are genotyped for many markers, but maternal ancestors are more difficult to discover because most female ancestors are not genotyped. Three methods to discover maternal grandsires (MGS) were developed and compared. Conflicts were...
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