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Human-Mediated Introgression of Haplotypes in a Modern Dairy Cattle Breed.
Genetics - 1 Aug 2018
Zhang Qianqian, Calus Mario P L, Bosse Mirte, Sahana Goutam, Lund Mogens Sandø, Guldbrandtsen Bernt
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Domestic animals can serve as model systems of adaptive introgression and their genomic signatures. In part, their usefulness as model systems is due to their well-known histories. Different breeding strategies such as introgression and artificial selection have generated numerous desirable phenotypes and superior performance in domestic animals. The modern Danish Red Dairy Cattle is studied as an example of an...
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