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Large-effect pleiotropic or closely linked QTL segregate within and across ten US cattle breeds.
BMC genomics - 6 Jun 2014
Saatchi Mahdi, Schnabel Robert D, Taylor Jeremy F, Garrick Dorian J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The availability of high-density SNP assays including the BovineSNP50 (50 K) enables the identification of novel quantitative trait loci (QTL) and improvement of the resolution of the locations of previously mapped QTL. We performed a series of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using 50 K genotypes scored in 18,274 animals from 10 US beef cattle breeds with observations for twelve body weights,...
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