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Prioritizing candidate genes post-GWAS using multiple sources of data for mastitis resistance in dairy cattle.
BMC genomics - 6 Sept 2018
Cai Zexi, Guldbrandtsen Bernt, Lund Mogens Sandø, Sahana Goutam
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BACKGROUND: Improving resistance to mastitis, one of the costliest diseases in dairy production, has become an important objective in dairy cattle breeding. However, mastitis resistance is influenced by many genes involved in multiple processes, including the response to infection, inflammation, and post-infection healing. Low genetic heritability, environmental variations, and farm management differences further...
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