Article
Genome-wide association study of reproductive traits in Nellore heifers using Bayesian inference.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 19 Aug 2015
Costa Raphael B, Camargo Gregório M F, Diaz Iara D P S, Irano Natalia, Dias Marina M, Carvalheiro Roberto, Boligon Arione A, Baldi Fernando, Oliveira Henrique N, Tonhati Humberto, Albuquerque Lucia G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: An important goal of Zebu breeding programs is to improve reproductive performance. A major problem faced with the genetic improvement of reproductive traits is that recording the time for an animal to reach sexual maturity is costly. Another issue is that accurate estimates of breeding values are obtained only a long time after the young bulls have gone through selection. An alternative to overcome...
Topics
- Animals
- Bayes Theorem
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Chromosomes, Mammalian
- Female
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Genotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait Loci
- Reproduction