Article
Detection of selection signatures in dairy and beef cattle using high-density genomic information.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 19 Jun 2015
Zhao Fuping, McParland Sinead, Kearney Francis, Du Lixin, Berry Donagh P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Artificial selection for economically important traits in cattle is expected to have left distinctive selection signatures on the genome. Access to high-density genotypes facilitates the accurate identification of genomic regions that have undergone positive selection. These findings help to better elucidate the mechanisms of selection and to identify candidate genes of interest to breeding programs....
Topics
- Animals
- Cattle
- Dairying
- Genome
- Genomics
- Male
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait Loci
- Selection, Genetic
- Selective Breeding