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Associations between variants of the HAL gene and milk production traits in Chinese Holstein cows.
BMC genetics - 25 Nov 2014
Wang Haifei, Jiang Li, Wang Wenwen, Zhang Shengli, Yin Zongjun, Zhang Qin, Liu Jian-Feng
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The histidine ammonia-lyse gene (HAL) encodes the histidine ammonia-lyase, which catalyzes the first reaction of histidine catabolism. In our previous genome-wide association study in Chinese Holstein cows to identify genetic variants affecting milk production traits, a SNP (rs41647754) located 357 bp upstream of HAL, was found to be significantly associated with milk yield and milk protein yield. In...
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