Genome-wide survey of SNP variation uncovers the genetic structure of cattle breeds.
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SUBMITTER: Bovine HapMap Consortium
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2735092 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
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Genome-wide survey of SNP variation uncovers the genetic structure of cattle breeds.
Gibbs Richard A RA Taylor Jeremy F JF Van Tassell Curtis P CP Barendse William W Eversole Kellye A KA Gill Clare A CA Green Ronnie D RD Hamernik Debora L DL Kappes Steven M SM Lien Sigbjørn S Matukumalli Lakshmi K LK McEwan John C JC Nazareth Lynne V LV Schnabel Robert D RD Weinstock George M GM Wheeler David A DA Ajmone-Marsan Paolo P Boettcher Paul J PJ Caetano Alexandre R AR Garcia Jose Fernando JF Hanotte Olivier O Mariani Paola P Skow Loren C LC Sonstegard Tad S TS Williams John L JL Diallo Boubacar B Hailemariam Lemecha L Martinez Mario L ML Morris Chris A CA Silva Luiz O C LO Spelman Richard J RJ Mulatu Woudyalew W Zhao Keyan K Abbey Colette A CA Agaba Morris M Araujo Flábio R FR Bunch Rowan J RJ Burton James J Gorni Chiara C Olivier Hanotte H Harrison Blair E BE Luff Bill B Machado Marco A MA Mwakaya Joel J Plastow Graham G Sim Warren W Smith Timothy T Thomas Merle B MB Valentini Alessio A Williams Paul P Womack James J Woolliams John A JA Liu Yue Y Qin Xiang X Worley Kim C KC Gao Chuan C Jiang Huaiyang H Moore Stephen S SS Ren Yanru Y Song Xing-Zhi XZ Bustamante Carlos D CD Hernandez Ryan D RD Muzny Donna M DM Patil Shobha S San Lucas Anthony A Fu Qing Q Kent Matthew P MP Vega Richard R Matukumalli Aruna A McWilliam Sean S Sclep Gert G Bryc Katarzyna K Choi Jungwoo J Gao Hong H Grefenstette John J JJ Murdoch Brenda B Stella Alessandra A Villa-Angulo Rafael R Wright Mark M Aerts Jan J Jann Oliver O Negrini Riccardo R Goddard Mike E ME Hayes Ben J BJ Bradley Daniel G DG Barbosa da Silva Marcos M Lau Lilian P L LP Liu George E GE Lynn David J DJ Panzitta Francesca F Dodds Ken G KG
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20090401 5926
The imprints of domestication and breed development on the genomes of livestock likely differ from those of companion animals. A deep draft sequence assembly of shotgun reads from a single Hereford female and comparative sequences sampled from six additional breeds were used to develop probes to interrogate 37,470 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 497 cattle from 19 geographically and biologically diverse breeds. These data show that cattle have undergone a rapid recent decrease in effec ...[more]
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