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Genomewide association study of liver abscess in beef cattle.
Journal of animal science - 1 Feb 2016
Keele J W, Kuehn L A, McDaneld T G, Tait R G, Jones S A, Keel B N, Snelling W M
Abstract excerpt
Fourteen percent of U.S. cattle slaughtered in 2011 had liver abscesses, resulting in reduced carcass weight, quality, and value. Liver abscesses can result from a common bacterial cause, , which inhabits rumen lesions caused by acidosis and subsequently escapes into the blood stream, is filtered by the liver, and causes abscesses in the liver. Our aim was to identify SNP associated with liver abscesses in beef...
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