Strategies to utilize marker-quantitative trait loci associations.

doi:10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(98)70157-2

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Strategies to utilize marker-quantitative trait loci associations.

Journal of dairy science - 1 Sept 1998

Haley C S, Visscher P M

Abstract excerpt

Marker-assisted selection holds promise because genetic markers provide completely heritable traits than can be measured at any age in either sex and that are potentially correlated with traits of economic value. Theoretical and simulation studies show that the advantage of using marker-assisted...

Topics

Animals
Breeding
Cattle
Female
Genetic Markers
Genotype
Male
Polymorphism, Genetic
Quantitative Trait, Heritable
Reproductive Techniques

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