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Concordance analysis for QTL detection in dairy cattle: a case study of leg morphology.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 19 May 2014
van den Berg Irene, Fritz Sébastien, Rodriguez Sabrina, Rocha Dominique, Boussaha Mekki, Lund Mogens S, Boichard Didier
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BACKGROUND: The present availability of sequence data gives new opportunities to narrow down from QTL (quantitative trait locus) regions to causative mutations. Our objective was to decrease the number of candidate causative mutations in a QTL region. For this, a concordance analysis was applied for a leg conformation trait in dairy cattle. Several QTL were detected for which the QTL status (homozygous or...
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