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Identification of candidate novel production variants on the Bos taurus chromosome X.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Nov 2023
Trebes H, Wang Y, Reynolds E, Tiplady K, Harland C, Lopdell T, Johnson T, Davis S, Harris B, Spelman R, Couldrey C
Abstract excerpt
Chromosome X is often excluded from bovine genetic studies due to complications caused by the sex specific nature of the chromosome. As chromosome X is the second largest cattle chromosome and makes up approximately 6% of the female genome, finding ways to include chromosome X in dairy genetic studies is important. Using female animals and treating chromosome X as an autosome, we performed X chromosome inclusive...
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