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Long-range linkage disequilibrium in French beef cattle breeds.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 23 Jul 2021
El Hou Abdelmajid, Rocha Dominique, Venot Eric, Blanquet Véronique, Philippe Romain
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BACKGROUND: Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is a key parameter to study the history of populations and to identify and fine map quantitative trait loci (QTL) and it has been studied for many years in animal populations. The advent of new genotyping technologies has allowed whole-genome LD studies in most cattle populations. However, to date, long-range LD (LRLD) between distant variants on the genome has not been...
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