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Genomewide association study of lung lesions in cattle using sample pooling.
Journal of animal science - 1 Mar 2015
Keele J W, Kuehn L A, McDaneld T G, Tait R G, Jones S A, Smith T P L, Shackelford S D, King D A, Wheeler T L, Lindholm-Perry A K, McNeel A K
Abstract excerpt
Bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) is the most expensive disease in beef cattle in the United States costing the industry at least US$1 billion annually. Bovine respiratory disease complex causes damage to lung tissue resulting in persistent lung lesions observable at slaughter. Severe lung lesions at harvest have been associated with decreased preharvest ADG and increased clinical BRDC in the feedlot. Our...
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