Article
Genome-wide association studies of growth traits in three dairy cattle breeds using whole-genome sequence data.
Journal of animal science - 1 Apr 2016
Mao X, Sahana G, De Koning D-J, Guldbrandtsen B
Abstract excerpt
Male calves and culled cows of dairy cattle are used for beef production. However, unlike beef breeds, the genetics of growth performance traits in dairy breeds have not been extensively studied. Here, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on Holsteins ( = 5,519), Jerseys ( = 1,231), and Red Dairy Cattle ( = 4,410) to identify QTL for growth traits. First, a GWAS was performed within breeds using...
Topics
- Animals
- Cattle
- Female
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Male
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait Loci