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Loci associated with adult stature also affect calf birth survival in cattle.
BMC genetics - 3 May 2015
Sahana Goutam, Höglund Johanna K, Guldbrandtsen Bernt, Lund Mogens S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Understanding the underlying pleiotropic relationships among quantitative traits is necessary in order to predict correlated responses to artificial selection. The availability of large-scale next-generation sequence data in cattle has provided an opportunity to examine whether pleiotropy is responsible for overlapping QTL in multiple economic traits. In the present study, we examined QTL affecting...
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