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Impact of whole-genome amplification on the reliability of pre-transfer cattle embryo breeding value estimates.
BMC genomics - 12 Oct 2014
Shojaei Saadi Habib A, Vigneault Christian, Sargolzaei Mehdi, Gagné Dominic, Fournier Éric, de Montera Béatrice, Chesnais Jacques, Blondin Patrick, Robert Claude
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BACKGROUND: Genome-wide profiling of single-nucleotide polymorphisms is receiving increasing attention as a method of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis in humans and of commercial genotyping of pre-transfer embryos in cattle. However, the very small quantity of genomic DNA in biopsy material from early embryos poses daunting technical challenges. A reliable whole-genome amplification (WGA) procedure would...
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