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SUBMITTER: Letaief R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5655909 | biostudies-other | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Letaief Rabia R Rebours Emmanuelle E Grohs Cécile C Meersseman Cédric C Fritz Sébastien S Trouilh Lidwine L Esquerré Diane D Barbieri Johanna J Klopp Christophe C Philippe Romain R Blanquet Véronique V Boichard Didier D Rocha Dominique D Boussaha Mekki M
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE 20171024 1
<h4>Background</h4>Copy number variations (CNV) are known to play a major role in genetic variability and disease pathogenesis in several species including cattle. In this study, we report the identification and characterization of CNV in eight French beef and dairy breeds using whole-genome sequence data from 200 animals. Bioinformatics analyses to search for CNV were carried out using four different but complementary tools and we validated a subset of the CNV by both in silico and experimental ...[more]