Blood groups and milk and type traits in dairy cattle: after forty years of research.

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This study addresses the utility of 11 blood groups as selection aids in Holstein breeding schemes and considers issues inherent to the approach of resolving quantitative variation into components that are due to quantitative trait loci. The data consisted of predicted transmitting abilities of 22,614 bulls, first lactation information on 1,924,171 cows, and type scores on 447,800 cows. Linear models were fitted...

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