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Development of polymorphic markers in the immune gene complex loci of cattle.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jun 2021
Bakshy K, Heimeier D, Schwartz J C, Glass E J, Wilkinson S, Skuce R A, Allen A R, Young J, McClure J C, Cole J B, Null D J, Hammond J A, Smith T P L, Bickhart D M
Abstract excerpt
The addition of cattle health and immunity traits to genomic selection indices holds promise to increase individual animal longevity and productivity, and decrease economic losses from disease. However, highly variable genomic loci that contain multiple immune-related genes were poorly assembled in the first iterations of the cattle reference genome assembly and underrepresented during the development of most...
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