Associations of breeding values for disease traits and genetic markers in dairy cattle estimated with a mixed model.

doi:10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(93)77722-X

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Associations of breeding values for disease traits and genetic markers in dairy cattle estimated with a mixed model.

Journal of dairy science - 1 Dec 1993

Andersson-Eklund L, Danell B

Abstract excerpt

Since 1985, all veterinary treatments on dairy cows in Sweden have been recorded and utilized for estimation of sire breeding values for resistance to clinical mastitis and to diseases other than clinical mastitis. The purpose of the present investigation was to study the relationship of blood gr...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Breeding
Cattle
Female
Genetic Markers
Immunity, Innate
Male
Mastitis, Bovine
Models, Genetic
Sweden

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