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Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in beef cattle revealed by genome wide association studies of imputed whole genome sequence variants: II: carcass merit traits.
BMC genomics - 13 Jan 2020
Wang Yining, Zhang Feng, Mukiibi Robert, Chen Liuhong, Vinsky Michael, Plastow Graham, Basarab John, Stothard Paul, Li Changxi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genome wide association studies (GWAS) were conducted on 7,853,211 imputed whole genome sequence variants in a population of 3354 to 3984 animals from multiple beef cattle breeds for five carcass merit traits including hot carcass weight (HCW), average backfat thickness (AFAT), rib eye area (REA), lean meat yield (LMY) and carcass marbling score (CMAR). Based on the GWAS results, genetic architectures...
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