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Investigation of cosmopolitan and local Italian beef cattle breeds uncover common patterns of heterozygosity.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 May 2024
Fabbri M C, Tiezzi F, Crovetti A, Maltecca C, Bozzi R
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The analysis of livestock heterozygosity is less common compared to the study of homozygous patterns. Heterozygous-Rich Regions (HRRs) may harbor significant loci for functional traits such as immune response, survival rate, and fertility. For this reason, this study was conducted to investigate and characterize the heterozygosity patterns of four beef cattle breeds, which included two cosmopolitan breeds...
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