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SUBMITTER: Iso-Touru T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4804490 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Iso-Touru T T Sahana G G Guldbrandtsen B B Lund M S MS Vilkki J J
BMC genetics 20160322
<h4>Background</h4>The Nordic Red Cattle consisting of three different populations from Finland, Sweden and Denmark are under a joint breeding value estimation system. The long history of recording of production and health traits offers a great opportunity to study production traits and identify causal variants behind them. In this study, we used whole genome sequence level data from 4280 progeny tested Nordic Red Cattle bulls to scan the genome for loci affecting milk, fat and protein yields.<h ...[more]