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Genome-wide association study identifies novel loci associated with resistance to bovine tuberculosis.
Heredity - 1 May 2014
Bermingham M L, Bishop S C, Woolliams J A, Pong-Wong R, Allen A R, McBride S H, Ryder J J, Wright D M, Skuce R A, McDowell S Wj, Glass E J
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium bovis is a re-emerging disease of livestock that is of major economic importance worldwide, as well as being a zoonotic risk. There is significant heritability for host resistance to bovine TB (bTB) in dairy cattle. To identify resistance loci for bTB, we undertook a genome-wide association study in female Holstein-Friesian cattle with 592 cases and 559 age-matched...
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