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A genome-wide association study of immune response traits in Canadian Holstein cattle.
BMC genomics - 4 Jul 2014
Thompson-Crispi Kathleen A, Sargolzaei Mehdi, Ventura Ricardo, Abo-Ismail Mohammed, Miglior Filippo, Schenkel Flavio, Mallard Bonnie A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Breeding for enhanced immune response (IR) has been suggested as a tool to improve inherent animal health. Dairy cows with superior antibody-mediated (AMIR) and cell-mediated immune responses (CMIR) have been demonstrated to have a lower occurrence of many diseases including mastitis. Adaptive immune response traits are heritable, and it is, therefore, possible to breed for improved IR, decreasing the...
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