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Remapping of the belted phenotype in cattle on BTA3 identifies a multiplication event as the candidate causal mutation.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 6 Jul 2018
Rothammer Sophie, Kunz Elisabeth, Krebs Stefan, Bitzer Fanny, Hauser Andreas, Zinovieva Natalia, Klymiuk Nikolai, Medugorac Ivica
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BACKGROUND: It has been known for almost a century that the belted phenotype in cattle follows a pattern of dominant inheritance. In 2009, the approximate position of the belt locus in Brown Swiss cattle was mapped to a 922-kb interval on bovine chromosome 3 and, subsequently, assigned to a 336-kb haplotype block based on an animal set that included, Brown Swiss, Dutch Belted (Lakenvelder) and Belted Galloway...
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