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A model to estimate effects of SNPs on host susceptibility and infectivity for an endemic infectious disease.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 30 Jun 2017
Biemans Floor, de Jong Mart C M, Bijma Piter
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Infectious diseases in farm animals affect animal health, decrease animal welfare and can affect human health. Selection and breeding of host individuals with desirable traits regarding infectious diseases can help to fight disease transmission, which is affected by two types of (genetic) traits: host susceptibility and host infectivity. Quantitative genetic studies on infectious diseases generally...
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