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Genetic variants in the upstream region of activin receptor IIA are associated with female fertility in Japanese Black cattle.
BMC genetics - 20 Oct 2015
Sasaki Shinji, Ibi Takayuki, Matsuhashi Tamako, Takeda Kenji, Ikeda Shogo, Sugimoto Mayumi, Sugimoto Yoshikazu
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BACKGROUND: Female fertility, a fundamental trait required for animal reproduction, has gradually declined in the last 2 decades in Japanese Black cattle. To identify associated genetic variants in Japanese Black cattle, we evaluated female fertility as a metric to describe the average inverse of the number of artificial inseminations required for conception from the first through the fourth parity (ANAI4) and...
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