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Estimation of genetic parameters and detection of quantitative trait loci for minerals in Danish Holstein and Danish Jersey milk.
BMC genetics - 21 May 2015
Buitenhuis Bart, Poulsen Nina A, Larsen Lotte B, Sehested Jakob
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BACKGROUND: Bovine milk provides important minerals, essential for human nutrition and dairy product quality. For changing the mineral composition of the milk to improve dietary needs in human nutrition and technological properties of milk, a thorough understanding of the genetics underlying milk mineral contents is important. Therefore the aim of this study was to 1) estimate the genetic parameters for...
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