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Genome-wide association study for endocrine fertility traits using single nucleotide polymorphism arrays and sequence variants in dairy cattle.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jul 2016
Tenghe A M M, Bouwman A C, Berglund B, Strandberg E, de Koning D J, Veerkamp R F
Abstract excerpt
Endocrine fertility traits, which are defined from progesterone concentration levels in milk, are interesting indicators of dairy cow fertility because they more directly reflect the cows own reproductive physiology than classical fertility traits, which are more biased by farm management decisions. The aim of this study was to detect quantitative trait loci (QTL) for 7 endocrine fertility traits in dairy cows by...
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