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Genome-wide scan for commons SNPs affecting bovine leukemia virus infection level in dairy cattle.
BMC genomics - 13 Feb 2018
Carignano Hugo A, Roldan Dana L, Beribe María J, Raschia María A, Amadio Ariel, Nani Juan P, Gutierrez Gerónimo, Alvarez Irene, Trono Karina, Poli Mario A, Miretti Marcos M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infection is omnipresent in dairy herds causing direct economic losses due to trade restrictions and lymphosarcoma-related deaths. Milk production drops and increase in the culling rate are also relevant and usually neglected. The BLV provirus persists throughout a lifetime and an inter-individual variation is observed in the level of infection (LI) in vivo. High LI is...
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