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Prevalence of sex-chromosome aneuploidy estimated using SNP genotype intensity information in a large population of juvenile dairy and beef cattle.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Sept 2024
Ryan Cliona A, Purfield Deirdre C, Matthews Daragh, Canedo-Ribeiro Carla, Valldecabres Ainhoa, Berry Donagh P
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Aneuploidy is a genetic condition characterized by the loss or gain of one or more chromosomes. Aneuploidy affecting the sex chromosomes can lead to infertility in otherwise externally phenotypically normal cattle. Early identification of cattle with sex chromosomal aneuploidy is important to minimize the costs associated with rearing infertile cattle and futile breeding attempts. As most livestock breeding...
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