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Relationship of bovine leukocyte adhesion deficiency with genetic merit for performance traits.
Journal of dairy science - 1 May 1996
Powell R L, Norman H D, Cowan C M
Abstract excerpt
Examination of the existence of pleiotropy or linkage of bovine leukocyte adhesion deficiency with other traits and of the impact of removal of the recessive, undesirable allele on genetic progress for those traits has been limited. Frequency of carriers among 6400 Holstein bulls tested was 8.2%; however, reporting was incomplete, and, therefore, the estimate of carrier frequency was biased downward. For...
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