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Use of SNP genotypes to identify carriers of harmful recessive mutations in cattle populations.
BMC genomics - 3 Nov 2016
Biscarini Filippo, Schwarzenbacher Hermann, Pausch Hubert, Nicolazzi Ezequiel L, Pirola Yuri, Biffani Stefano
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BACKGROUND: SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms) genotype data are increasingly available in cattle populations and, among other things, can be used to predict carriers of specific mutations. It is therefore convenient to have a practical statistical method for the accurate classification of individuals into carriers and non-carriers. In this paper, we compared - through cross-validation- five classification...
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